Vanessa Cummings

Ohio House District 47

Vanessa Cummings

About Vanessa Cummings

Vanessa is a proud graduate of both the University of Alabama and Payne Theological Seminary. She is now Pastor of Payne Chapel AME Church in Hamilton. She has a long history of public service, previously having worked for the Butler County Children Services Board, Miami University, and Columbus State Community College. She currently serves as the Vice President of the Oxford NAACP and on the Butler County Mental Health and Addiction Recovery Services Board.

Vanessa believes our education system’s success is our children’s success. She believes politicians should stop deciding what is being taught in our schools. The decisions about curriculum should be left up to the parents, who know their kids best, and the educators, who know the material best. The goal should be to improve public education, not undermine and defund it, as the voucher system is proposing to do.

Rank-and-file OEA members from legislative districts and surrounding school districts screened Vanessa Cummings based on her positions on the following issues and granted her an endorsement for this cycle.

Rating Vanessa Cummings

Rank-and-file OEA members from legislative districts and surrounding school districts screened and endorsed candidates based on their positions and voting records on the following issues:

  • Support for fully funding the Fair School Funding Plan to ensure students and educators have the resources they need and to alleviate dependency on local property tax levies
  • Stopping book bans, infringing on educators’ academic freedom, censorship, and ensuring the ability of students to receive an inclusive, historically accurate, and truthful education
  • Decreasing standardized testing
  • Shifting away from the State of Ohio’s report cards being based on testing outcomes
  • Stopping state takeovers of school districts due to low standardized test scores
  • Preservation of educators’ pensions to ensure a safe, secure retirement so Ohio can attract and retain the educators of tomorrow
  • Opposition to privatizing educational services to ensure education positions remain good union jobs
  • Support for unions and collective bargaining to ensure educators receive fair contracts and have a voice in the workplace
  • Opposition to vouchers and voucher expansion, and support for charter and private school accountability

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