Updated 3/14/19 – see the opinion of the sitting member of State School Board on the whole 550 member Ohio Department of Education at the end of the article. It is very alarming! ********************1776 We received this recap of the… Read More ›
Education
Meeting with Representative John Patterson….
Several patriots met with State Representative John Patterson (District 99) at the Chardon Library today to discuss the unsustainable funding of public schools in the State of Ohio with property taxes. Representative Patterson was well aware of the looming… Read More ›
Riverside School Levy…oh no….they are back for more
It seems that all we do is talk about property taxes these days. Simple reason for that, really. The political sub-divisions keep coming back for more, and more, and more. Just as the orange barrels on our roads are the… Read More ›
Public Schools and Lobbyists….part 1
We recently published an article about a Lucas County State Representative, Derek Merrin, introducing legislation that would simplify the ballot language for any property tax levy placed on the ballot by the public schools. The legislation has been opposed by… Read More ›
Proposed Property Tax Law Changes….now we are talking
Thanks to our patriot friend named George for the heads up on this Oho legislator’s proposed changes in the property tax law. https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/02/state-lawmaker-seeks-to-change-ballot-language-for-property-tax-hike-requests.html We will be reaching out to Representative Merrin to see how we can help him to get… Read More ›
Social, Emotional, Learning…..read “indoctrination”
We are ringing the alarm bells as loud as we can…….Everyone needs to understand what is planned for Ohio schools, and the massive overreach and intrusion into the family’s duty and role in raising THEIR children. Here are a couple… Read More ›
Public Pensions…..icebergs ahead…..
Thanks to Tom Niewulis of Geauga County for this great article on public pensions. It is LFC’s goal to try to determine how Lake County citizens are impacted by the unfunded pension liabilities. PART 5 – SELF-INFLICTED EVICTION: PUBLIC PENSION… Read More ›
Eliminating Native American mascots, names, insignia…
Ohio School Board Representative, Meryl Johnson, from SBoE District #11 (most of Cuyahoga County and a sliver of Lake County along Lake Erie) has submitted a resolution to the State School board suggesting banning of ‘Native American mascots, names, insignia,… Read More ›
Lake County School Rankings
Thanks to our Willoughby lobbyists for informing us about the Cleveland.com article on school rankings. We compiled the following information from the Ohio Department of Education website. PERFORMANCE INDEX RANKING The Performance Index is a calculation that measures student performance… Read More ›
Riverside Local School….# of Educators
While reviewing the Ohio report card website we discovered this listing of Riverside Local schools’ total number of educators by job description. Before we published the results, we asked Riverside officials to verify the accuracy. To their credit, they said… Read More ›
Lakeland and W-E Schools…..we have a problem..we want some answers! [update 1/28/19]
Thanks to our Kirtland lobbyist for the heads up on this article….. Superintendent Stephan Thompson of Willoughby-Eastlake school proudly announces what is in store for Willoughby residents. LFC wants you to take note of who Mr. Thompson has hitched his… Read More ›
School Levy Limitations…..thanks to GOATS
We met some Geauga patriots that have similiar viewpoints on the sustainability of using property taxes to fund public schools. They have provided some information on school levy limitations that we thought all concerned citizens may be interested in reading…. Read More ›
Fairport Harbor Schools…..should they stay open?
When reviewing the State of Ohio report card website, we noticed an interesting statistic about Fairport Harbor schools. Here is the link to the website: https://reportcard.education.ohio.gov/district/detail/045369 This has to do with the school’s enrollment. It appears that there are ~697… Read More ›
Lake County’s School Districts…..2018 Report Cards
There is has quite a debate on the local Nextdoor.com app regarding the performance of the Lake County public schools. We decided to put some effort into providing the information published on the State of Ohio’s Report Card website. If… Read More ›
State Report Card Grades……vouchers and charter schools
From Cleveland.com Lower state report card grades open door for massive expansion of vouchers, charter schools Updated Jan 13, 7:29 AM; Posted Jan 13, 4:33 AM Parma High School is one of the new schools where students can now use tax-funded EdChoice vouchers… Read More ›
Colleges and State / Federal Funding…another expensive deception
We received permission to post this email from a Lorain Lobbyist. Here is one citizen’s opinion about the quality a the value of a college education. We will keep you posted if a response is provided to this email. *********************1776… Read More ›
Ohio Education and Poverty
Thanks to our Lorain Lobbyist for this article: https://www.limaohio.com/news/331220/cupp-releases-report-on-education-and-poverty Cupp releases report on education and poverty NEWS Examines effect on achievement gap By Sam Shriver – sshriver@limanews.com COLUMBUS — A new report is out that helps to understand… Read More ›
News-Herald Article on Lake County Schools…so when does reality set in?
We read with great interest the following News-Herald article dealing with the dilemma facing Lake County schools. Declining enrollment, declining property tax in Perry, but the desire to replace old school buildings. News Herald page 1 Lake County Schools News-Herald… Read More ›
Lake County Public Schools…..let’s see who will be transparent with taxpayers
We sent the following email to all nine Lake County Superintendents. We are requesting that they review the schedules that we prepared from information we extracted or gleaned from various State of Ohio school websites. Once we have received the… Read More ›
Pension Plans…..part 2
As we continue our education on pension plans, the reality of the duplicitous conduct of our federal legislators became painfully obvious when we made the numbers “talk to us”. The days of retiring from large corporations with the knowledge that… Read More ›
Ohio State Teachers’ Retirement System…part 1
We are reviewing the state teachers retirement system. Rather that overwhelm everyone with a mountain of data, we thought we would handle it in manageable increments. Here is a recap of some basic data taken from the State of Ohio’s… Read More ›
Ohio School Funding Article
Thanks to our Kirtland Lobbyist for this Cleveland.com article on Ohio schools: https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/08/ohio_voters_must_demand_equita.html We will be contacting the author, Thomas Suddes, to see what we can do together on this problem of school funding We completely agree with Mr. Suddes… Read More ›
Texas Schools….different State, but same problem with property taxes
Thanks to our Geauga friends for this report about Texas schools: Texas article 2018-06-RR-Robin-Hood-School-Property-Tax-BelewSassPeacock-1 We copied the following sentences from the article: “The consequences of high and fast-growing property taxes are numerous. Taxes can discourage economic growth, distort investment decisions,… Read More ›
Hillsdale College….revamping K-12 education needed
Thanks to Lobbyist Don for this post: Why does Ohio prevent Charter Schools promoted by Hillsdale College for a Classic education? Makes no sense! It’s only a political ploy to prevent honest competition, beneficial to all! Go to : www.hillsdale.edu/townhall for honest… Read More ›
STRS and OPERS…how well are they funded?
We have been trying to better understand the various pension systems in the State: STRS, SERS, PERS. When reviewing the State of Ohio’s annual financial statement report, we noticed some interesting statistics, and we wanted to be sure that we… Read More ›