Thanks to our Lobbyists for this startling news about college loan defaults….college are big businesses…and in my opinion our citizens are being abused by them. We need to reinforce the need for a skilled labor force, and not automatically send… Read More ›
Education
FY 2017 Schools Stats from Cupp Report
The State of Ohio has published the FY 2017 financial statistics on the Cupp Report. We have taken the time to review total revenue and expenditures for each of the 607 districts in the State and then isolated just the… Read More ›
Lake County Schools FY 2017 Revenue Sources
The State of Ohio Cupp Report has published the financial information for FY 2017. Here is a schedule that will give you the revenue for each school district in Lake County. It is sorted by the Average Revenue Per Pupil…. Read More ›
Letter to Morris Beverage Pres of Lakeland CC
We will be starting to look at the financials of Lakeland Community College. Here is a letter we sent to Mr. Beverage, President of the college. March 18, 2018 Mr. Morris W. Beverage, Jr. EDM President Lakeland Community College 7700… Read More ›
Email to State Rep. Cupp (Lima) on School Funding
We sent the following email to State Representative Robert R. Cupp (Lima) regarding school funding. I was informed by a local school superintendent that you and Representative Patterson were working on new sources of funding for the State of Ohio… Read More ›
Riverside School’s lawsuit settled
Thanks to our Nextdoor.com neighbor for the heads up on the lawsuit being settled. Here is the information from the school’s website. Settlement agreement reached with Concord Township The Riverside Local School District Board of Education and Concord Township Trustees… Read More ›
Riverside School District Map….
We have been asked several times about the area covered by the Riverside School District. Here is a link to a map that provides the geographic area of the Riverside School District. Open the link, and then scroll down the… Read More ›
State of Ohio’s Strategic Plan for All Schools….no mention of taxpayers
We have learned about meeting being held around the State of Ohio dealing with a new Strategic Plan for students in public schools. Here is a link to their 18 page “Draft Plan”. #EachChild – Full Strategic Plan Report –… Read More ›
Riverside Schools….and the district’s wealth factor
We were curious about the State of Ohio payments to the Riverside School District. In the State’s desire to ensure total “equality and adequacy” in public education, they adjust the standard payment per pupil by the “wealth factor” of the… Read More ›
Riverside School College Credit Plus Program
We wrote to the Riverside School official asking for the cost of the College Credit Plus program to Lake County taxpayers. Here is the response. Hi Brian, We are currently in the third year of the College Credit Plus… Read More ›
Hillsdale’s Barney Charter Schools….another possible solution to public education
Thanks to Don Heuer, another Lobbyist for Citizens, for providing us with an email received from Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College….. Dear Don, I hope your day is going well. You understand, as do I, that the process… Read More ›
School Financing…starting to get on the radar screen…
Article from Mentor officials dealing with school financing, unfortunately it is not dated. CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER’S ISSUE FOR COMMENTOR STATEWIDE SCHOOL FUNDING REFORM – STATUS REPORT Historically, Ohio has funded public education utilizing an over-reliance on local property taxes. In… Read More ›
Want to provide input to Ohio’s Education Plan?
Shaping the Future of Education in Ohio: Review and Respond to Ohio’s Strategic Plan Engage in community conversations to provide input on Ohio’s Draft Strategic Education Plan, which will create a unified system that… Read More ›
Public School Expenditures by State….
We found a website that provided some interesting statistics about public school spending in 2015. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/education-data/state-education-spending-per-pupil-data.html We took their raw base data given and expanded it to see if would could glean more information from the data. For example, they… Read More ›
Lake County School Funding….part 2
We have been working on calculating the average spend per student for each school district in Lake County. We must say that there are some very startling numbers….. Here is the average $ spent per student for CY 2018 vs… Read More ›
Riverside – Concord School Debate – part two….
There were four “Lobbyists for Citizens” at a meeting today (1/19) with Mr. Jim Kalis, Superintendent of Riverside Local School District, and Mr. Gary Platko, CFO of Riverside School. The meeting was requested by us with the expressed purpose of… Read More ›
Some interesting stats on Lake County Schools….
We have started to analyze the State of Ohio School District Profile Report (also known as the Cupp Report) for FY 2016 to see if the numbers tell us anything. Once the data is inserted in the Excel spreadsheets it… Read More ›
Ever Heard of DeRolph v. State of Ohio? How to achieve equality in education?
With a belated thank you to a Heritage Club meeting attendee for mentioning the State of Ohio Supreme Court ruling that school funding with real estate taxes is unconstitutional, I started to do some research on this subject. In 1991… Read More ›
Riverside Schools….you rolled the dice and it came up “snake eyes”…
I had a meeting tonight to discuss the ongoing problem of the Riverside School district. Here is some information that I was told. In December 2016, a Bond Levy was passed to build two new schools. One behind the current… Read More ›
Riverside School District Taxpayers….hold on to your wallet, they are at it again..
After asking some questions on the status of the proposed new Riverside school in Concord Township, a source told me this: “The School District has, or will shortly, post information on the expected additional taxpayer costs, if the Madison Ave. and… Read More ›
Lake County Financing District….update…update
We sent an email to the Riverside School officials and inquired how the funds received from the Lake County Financing District were spent, and what impact will the Perry Plant devaluation have on the schools in the district. Here is… Read More ›
Lake County Financing District…what is it???
When I was looking at my real estate tax bill I noticed I was paying $182.24 every six months to some political sub-division called “Other”. No longer willing to just accept “other” as an acceptable answer, I started to do… Read More ›
Lake County Schools….by the numbers…
We found a useful comparative worksheet that allows us to compare Lake County schools versus the rest of the State of Ohio. The information is published annual in the Cupp Report. Here is the 2016 report. We have added in… Read More ›
Riverside Schools versus Concord Township
I sent an email to the Riverside School Board asking for an update on the problem with building a school in Concord Township, and for the scheduled school board meetings for 2018. We will start attending those meetings. (Comment: It is… Read More ›