Jacqueline Cheadle: I serve as an Education Program Specialist with the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce since 2016. While at the department, I have also been the Assistant Director in the Office of Nonpublic Options with oversight of the Autism Scholarship program, and the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship program. As An Education Program Specialist I provided programming support to the Summer Learning and Afterschool Opportunities Grant program. Prior to my work at the department, I worked in both public and private schools as an Intervention Specialist. The views, thoughts and opinions in this blog are not the views of the Department of Education and Workforce but are solely my own.