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: ...

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

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about the failure of the Milford school levy by 54 votes in the general election. Milford, a suburb of Cincinnati, was seeking a 5.5 mill operating levy - what would have been its first since 2003. More on that posting. While supporters are waiting to see if the count of provisional ballots on November 25th might put them over ...

In the final total, more than 61% of the local school levies passed Tuesday, and nearly 39% of the local school levies failed, which was a new record high of support for the past five years but not as good as a decade ago. More on election results. In a statewide phone survey, we asked Ohio registered voters last month how they voted on local ...