Month: February 2020

News-Herald’s Take on Financing District Levy

(LFC Comments:  Since we have spent a great deal of time researching this subject, we just had to weigh in on the reporting done by the News-Herald.) https://www.news-herald.com/news/elections/lake-county-school-financing-district-puts-49-mill-renewal-levy-on-march-17-ballot/article_482393b2-4c39-11ea-9f6a-073f4af95e15.html We have realized for quite some time that the News-Herald no longer… Read More ›

Public Schools…a costly failure

Thanks to the Marietta, OH  9/12 Project for the heads up on this article dealing with the failure of American Schools: https://fee.org/articles/the-failure-of-public-schooling-in-one-chart/ Some excerpts: “The problem isn’t limited to minority students. Only 46% of white fourth-graders—and 35% of fourth-graders of… Read More ›

Willoughby-Eastlake School Tax Levy…how good is the reporting?

(Thanks to one of our Kirtland lobbyists for this article on Willoughby-Eastlake School District.  It will be interesting to see what kind of spin the News-Herald will put on the series of articles on the Lake County school superintendents.) https://www.news-herald.com/news/lake-county/superintendent-declares-willoughby-eastlake-schools-in-a-state-of-emergency-as-levy-vote-looms/article_7802b5c2-485b-11ea-b379-831967e4da3f.html?fbclid=IwAR1vYUs2Fs6olrVguC4e_iNWzaIyaG6rntfd3jspieF143L4kkati1GBgC4… Read More ›