The Center for Community Solutions provided these statistics about education in the City of Cleveland. 20% of the people living in Cleveland do not have a high school education –(LFC Comment: spending $20,000 per year per child does not seem… Read More ›
We received the brochure “Ohio Strategic Plan For Education: 2019 – 2024. This is a comprehensive report prepared by the top educators in Ohio. It reveals what they consider to be the challenges of public education and their solutions to… Read More ›
updated: 11/3/18 “Personnel Data” updated: 11/4/18 “Property Tax Value and Tax Data” / “Local Tax Effort” / “Expenditure Per Pupil Data” updated: 11/6/18 “Revenue Per Pupil Data” / “District Financial Status” We have been asked about some details regarding students… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Jim for sending us these articles from the News-Herald…..Taxpayers are not very happy with the ever increasing property taxes.
Thanks, to Lobbyist Jim for this disturbing article on declining ACT scores for college bound students: Thanks, Common Core: ACT Scores for Class of 2018 Worst in Decades By Paula Bolyard October 17, 2018 chat 434 comments (Getty Images) The creators of the ACT test… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Kirsten for this article on Ohio’s public school funding. After latest report cards, Ohio lawmakers plan school funding fix By Jim Siegel The Columbus Dispatch Posted Oct 22, 2018 at 5:55 AM Updated Oct 22, 2018 at… Read More ›
We were asked for our opinion on the Lakeland Community College proposed levy. For an entity that is supposed operate in the best interests of the community, they have not impressed us with their decision making, nor are the trustees… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyists Arzella for uncovering this article from 2017 about school funding. http://www.ideastream.org/stateimpact/2017/04/25/ohio-school-funding-unequal-20-years-after-supreme-court-case We need some “out of the box” thinking on public school funding, because there is ample evidence indicating that what we are doing is not working,… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Arzella for this link to the article on the state of Ohio public school financing twenty years after the DeRolph case that deemed the use of property taxes to fund public schools unconstitutional. Since this is a… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Kirsten for this article on how the tax abatement policy for businesses have impacted Ohio’s public schools. This article provides a great deal of detail, and may be a bit overwhelming. https://www.policymattersohio.org/research-policy/quality-ohio/revenue-budget/budget-policy/tax-abatements-cost-ohio-schools-at-least-125-million “Property tax abatements caused 180… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Arzella for this link to an article that dares to offer alternatives to public schools, and Common Core. The last sentence of the article makes sense to us. “The rallying cry should be for educational freedom so… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Arzella for her research on the school funding issues….It seems that the unfairness of the use of property taxes has been discussed by citizens and politicians for quite some time. Here is a letter to the editor… Read More ›
Did you know that a public school district could request an income tax be placed on the ballot versus a property tax? Here is a link to an April 8, 2018 article by Ashtabula’s Star Beacon detailing Geneva’s request for… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Siobhan for letting us know about Gregg Lawson, of the Buckeye Institute, speaking out for universal school vouchers. Here is a link to a web-site that details their ideas about Education Savings Accounts. http://theohiostar.com/2018/09/16/ohio-think-tank-recommends-politicians-end-education-by-zip-code-and-go-for-real-reform/ The State legislators… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Jim W. for this article: (LFC Comments: Here are the overall grades earned by each school district. Unfortunately, our research into the whole idea of State report cards leaves us disillusioned about their accuracy. In any case,… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Arzella for this article on school funding……everyone knows there is a problem, seniors are being pushed into poverty, but no one really has the spine to do anything about it because the public school’s special interest lobbyists… Read More ›
Our focus on the impact of increasing property taxes on our seniors has led us into learning the history of the DeRolph versus the State of Ohio, where the Ohio Supreme Court found that using property taxes as a funding… Read More ›
Thanks to Lobbyist Kirsten for the heads up on the proposed education plan by Mike DeWine, candidate for Governor of Ohio. “Less testing, more learning: DeWine unveiled his education plan on Thursday, calling for fewer tests and more state funding for… Read More ›
Thanks to neighbor Mike for the following link that discusses alternatives to public school funding. https://www.ecs.org/is-it-time-to-stop-funding-schools-with-local-property-taxes/
We were made aware of a new program for our public schools entitled “Each Child, Our Future”. We asked Sarah Fowler, our State Representative to the Ohio School Board, what her opinion was of the new program. This is her… Read More ›
The Center for Community Solutions produces some very interesting statistics about each county in the State of Ohio. Here are some sobering numbers about Lake County: Lake County Poverty Statistics 2018 (1) Although I have no gift of prophecy, I… Read More ›
Our concerns about Lakeland Community College started over six months ago, when I started to hear “whispers” from sources that LCC was $10 million over budget on their current building expansion, and are thinking about placing another levy on the… Read More ›
A .4 mill levy to fund a $40 million Bond Levy for further expansion is on the November ballot. To the Lakeland Board of Trustees: We give you credit for having the chutzpah to ask Lake County taxpayers for more… Read More ›
The Lakeland Community College Board of Directors wants to continue taking money from Lake County taxpayers. We asked for the public records on their .4 mill bond levy they will place on the ballot in November. Here is what we… Read More ›
I have been a bit preoccupied with the amount of money that is spent public education versus the grades reported for each Ohio school district. As a reminder, the State of Ohio spent $24.1 billion in federal, state and local… Read More ›