Debe Terhar is a US politician and member of the Republican Party. She currently serves as president of the Ohio State Board of Education.
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major political parties in the United States; the other is its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
Debe Terhar was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and has resided in California, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and England before moving to Ohio in 1989. [1] She is a former Montessori teacher with experience in Early Childhood Montessori Education. Terhar served on the Cincinnati Montessori Society Board of Directors and on the Parent's Advisory Council of the Kelly O'Leary Center for Autism at Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) is a 700-bed pediatric hospital located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is ranked second among all Honor Roll hospitals in the 2018-19 U.S. News & World Report survey of best children's hospitals. It is home to the country's busiest pediatric emergency department, performs the second largest number of surgical procedures at a children's hospital in the nation, and is Southwest Ohio's only Level I pediatric trauma center. Cincinnati Children's receives the third-most NIH funds of any pediatric institution in the United States. The pediatric residency training program at Cincinnati Children's is among the largest in the country, training approximately 200 graduate physicians each year. Cincinnati Children's is home to a large neonatology department that oversees newborn nurseries at local hospitals and the medical center's own 59-bed Level IV Newborn Intensive Care Unit.
Terhar is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Xavier University and currently serves as a Board Member on the Women of Excellence Council of Xavier's President's Advisory Council. She is a founding member of the American Spirit Education Alliance, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of American heritage. [2]
Xavier University is a Jesuit university in Cincinnati and Norwood, Ohio. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,485 students and graduate enrollment of 2,165. It is primarily an undergraduate, liberal arts institution.
She is a past president of the Hamilton County Republican Women's Club, a member of the Warren County Republican Women's Club, the Hamilton County Republican Club, The Green Township Republican Club and an early participant in the Tea Party movement. She is active in both the Northwest and Southwest Tea Parties of Hamilton County and the Lebanon Tea Party in Warren County.
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Terhar is married to Louis Terhar, a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 30th district. They reside in the Cincinnati suburb of Monfort Heights. They have four children and four grandchildren. [1]
Louis Terhar is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 8th district. The district includes portions of Hamilton County. Formerly, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2011 to 2016.
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Terhar was elected to the Ohio State Board of Education in November 2010. Her term continues until December 2014. She was elected president of the state board in March 2011 with the support of Gov. John Kasich and reelected to the post in January 2013. [3]
Terhar is active in the Tea Party movement.
In January 2013, shortly after President Obama addressed the nation about gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Terhar posted a graphic on her Facebook page with the caption "Never forget what this tyrant said: 'To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.' — Adolf Hitler." Terhar denied that she was comparing Obama to Hitler, but later stated that we "need to step back and think about it and look at history" to see that tyrants have disarmed their citizens. [4]
On September 10, 2013, Terhar made a statement at a State Board of Education meeting regarding the Toni Morrison novel The Bluest Eye, calling it "pornography". The book is on a suggested reading list for the Common Core State Standards Initiative. “I don’t want my grandchildren reading it and I don’t want anybody else’s grandchildren reading it,” she said. "It should not be used in any school for any Ohio K-12 child. If you want to use it in college somewhere, that’s fine." [5] Terhar later stated that she supports Common Core in Ohio, and that she was not suggesting that the state ban the book. [6] Many local and national media reported it as a book banning case, however.
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