School Funding Matters

The Ohio Senate is expected to bring out its own school funding plan soon, and undoubtedly, there will continue to be rhetoric about perceived deficiencies in the Ohio Evidence-Based Model that is contained in Governor Strickland's proposal and modified by substitute House Bill 1. (More on substitute House Bill 1.) There is no question that the ...

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: ...