School Funding Matters

At first glance, the governor’s education plan might seem to some like high school math – you know, the complicated high school math you might have never really understood well or, if you did, you simply forgot over the years. Instead of (3x + y) = (2x – 2y) or some such thing you get the following from the Executive Budget for FYs 2010-2011: ...

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At the annual conference and trade show put on by the Ohio School Boards Association in Columbus last week, everyone seemed to be talking about school levies. Some of the urban schools were cheered by passage of their levies, no doubt fueled by the heavy turnout for the presidential race. Other schools were lamenting levy failures, which meant ...