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Central Ohio school board member chosen as 2019 OSBA president-elect

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The Ohio School Boards Association Delegate Assembly has elected Lee Schreiner as the association’s 2019 president-elect. Schreiner serves on the South-Western City Board of Education in Franklin County.

He was elected Monday during the Annual Business Meeting of the OSBA Delegate Assembly. The delegates meet each year at the Capital Conference, the association’s state convention that draws more than 9,000 school board members, administrators and other education leaders to Columbus.
Current OSBA President-elect John W. Halkias, a member of the Plain Local Schools Board of Education in Stark County, will become OSBA president on Jan. 1, 2019.

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Schreiner will take over as OSBA president in 2020, following his term as president-elect. The president-elect’s duties include serving on OSBA’s Board of Trustees and Executive Committee and chairing the Legislative Platform Committee and Federal Relations Network.

Schreiner was appointed to the South-Western City Schools Board of Education in 2013 and then elected twice. The retired teacher, who taught for 37 years for South-Western City Schools, also serves on OSBA’s Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, Federal Relations Network and Central Region Executive Committee. He was the Central Region president in 2017.

Schreiner ran for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives in 2016 and remains actively involved in OSBA’s legislative efforts at both the state and national levels. In 2008, he was a member representative of Gov. Ted Strickland’s Governor’s Institute for Creativity and Innovation in Education.

In his district, Schreiner has served on numerous levy and bond committees during South-Western City’s ongoing, multiphase Ohio Facilities Construction Commission project. He also tutors South-Western City students in reading, writes children’s books and has coached high school and collegiate soccer.
In the his community, the part-time paralegal is a member of the Lions Club and devotes his time to numerous organizations and charities, including the United Way, WOSU public radio and the American Red Cross.

Schreiner and his wife, Jane, have been married for 42 years. Their two sons, Damien and Sebastian, graduated from South-Western City Schools.

In its 63rd year, the Ohio School Boards Association leads the way to educational excellence by serving Ohio’s public school board members and the diverse districts they represent through superior service and creative solutions.

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