A good look at what is really wrong with property tax funded school systems

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writen by the man responsible for giving me a platform to vent my views before the internets kicked in, Larry Durstin, he explains some of the issues involved with school funding and challenges the teacher unions to get behind the revamping of the way we fund education here in Ohio and many other states...

But let’s leave aside for a moment the critical battle over collective bargaining and focus on what needs to be done to produce an education system that’s geared to creating a better future for the state’s children. First and foremost what must be kept in mind is that nothing is going to dramatically change for many Ohio school systems until the state’s current obscene manner of school-funding is fed to the fishes and a more equitable one is put in its place. Which is exactly what the Ohio Supreme Court said in the DeRolph case over a decade ago when it called the existing funding system “unconstitutional” because of its over-reliance on local property taxes and ruled that the state’s public school financing method “must undergo a complete systematic overhaul.”

http://www.clevelandfreepress.com/content/5102


I don't always agree with Larry and of course, he doesn't always agree with me, but why would any thinking person wato readead only opinions that reinforce what you think.