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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Well, this is a huge surprise. We have been waiting for a basic statistic that we thought was tracked by each school system and the State of Ohio on their Cupp Reports. They track virtually every other statistic, but for… Read More ›
Thanks to our Kirtland Lobbyist for sharing this article on school funding. We will be reaching out to our State Representative on the School Board to try to get more information. Our preference is to give choice and control back… Read More ›
We found this recent article (September 14, 2018) prepared by Greg Lawson of the Buckeye Institute that we think is worthwhile reading. It deals with alternative school funding in the State of Ohio. The basic idea is giving more control… Read More ›
We have starting researching Ohio teachers’ compensation packages. We discovered the following website that provides the details on the individual teacher’s and administrator’s annual compensation. We started with the Riverside Local school district. http://www.tos.ohio.gov/Teacher_Salary/-any-/-any-/-any-/-any-/-any-/-any-/-any- Here is what the website showed us… Read More ›
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 ›