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Governor to tour high school
Gov. Ted Strickland will be in town this week and plans to tour Springfield High School, according to a release from his office.
Strickland will tour the newly-opened school on Home Road at about noon Thursday, Feb. 12, according to his office. Then he’ll head down to Hamilton to tour their freshman building.
It looks like there may be time for questions from the press on Strickland’s education funding and reform plan. Post your questions here and I’ll take them with me Thursday.
We had some pretty detailed coverage of the funding plan over the weekend and keep an eye on the blog for more this week on various aspects of Strickland’s proposed reform.
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By Leonard
February 9, 2009 8:05 AM | Link to this
How does he plan on funding the program after Ohio’s share of the stimulus package runs out? How does he plan to explain to the ACLU and other organizations as to why he is cutting funding to correctional institutions and other government funded programs while increasing funding to education? The legislature will not stop funding or increase accountability to charter schools. How does he intend to respond to this? There is still a heavy reliance on property tax to pay for an educational program that has not been defined in terms of what constitutes a “21st Century” education. Isn’t his program just another quick fix to a problem that has been going on for the past 15 years? The real problem is that we are throwing money at an educational system that hasn’t been defined. Shouldn’t the legislature fund the educational curriculum completely and allow each school district to fund the extra-curricular programs? At least every school child will be assured of an equal “21st century” education.By Leonard
February 9, 2009 8:18 AM | Link to this
Continuing: When a child goes to another district or to a charter school, all of the funding (100%)goes with the child to the receiving district. This includes the district’s property value share of the funding. How do you feel about shifting only the state’s portion of the funding to the receiving school? Adding 20 days to the school calendar will be very costly. Is the increase in funding going to cover this mandate or will there be additional funding to help offset this cost? It was mentioned that some of the tabacco money would be used to help Ohio get out of its economic problem. Is this the same tabacco money that is being used for the Ohio School Facilities program? What happens when the tabacco money runs out and there are still schools to build?By bart simpson
February 18, 2009 12:48 AM | Link to this
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