When Stan Heffner hurriedly resigned just two days after being found in violation of Ohio Ethics Laws, the State Board of Education was left scrambling to find someone to take control of the Ohio Department of Education on a short-term basis.  Michael Sawyers, an Assistant Superintendent at ODE was tagged to fill that role.  Sawyers came to ODE when Deb Delisle was State Superintendent to oversee the implementation of Race to the Top, the Obama administration’s massive federally funded education initiative that can be credited with instituting most of the education reforms we are currently seeing rolled out […]