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: ...

  “I will be making suggestions that, if enacted, will result in a transformed system of education in ...

  “The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of ...

Ohio Governor Ted Strickland gave end-of-year interviews to the major news media in Ohio this past week, and in each of them he pledged to keep his promise to fix the school funding problem that has plagued the state for decades. With the state hemorrhaging revenue in what is arguably the worst economic crisis in generations, how can he keep that ...