A July policy removes power from the State Board of Education. Ohio's K-12 education system has become the center of a legal battle between lawmakers and members of the State Board of Education.

Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and Ohio’s elected education board members are battling over who is in charge of the state’s education department — and whether that department exists at all.

File photo of a Cleveland Metropolitan School District Board of Education meeting on February 13, 2024. School boards are the subject of a recently published study out of Miami University. During the ...