The Plain Dealer
1/17/2007
Never have the prospects for Ohio school funding reform looked more promising.
The state has a new governor committed to reform and many lawmakers at least willing to consider it.
So, with the conditions ripe for reform, along comes the movement’s most ardent advocates to mount their latest self-defeating stunt. Not only have reform advocates […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
1/17/2007
By Joe Hallett
A ballot proposal to fix school funding in Ohio shrewdly attempts to create powerful allies of university officials and mayors by mandating more state money annually for higher education and local governments.
But advocates for poor children and the elderly who rely on Medicaid and other state programs worry that the proposed […]

Proposed ballot issue tries to fix funding systemThe Columbus Dispatch
1/17/2007
Catherine Candisky and Jim Siegel
Even before its official unveiling today, a proposed statewide school-funding issue is drawing heavy fire for removing legislative control and lacking specifics on costs that likely would total hundreds of millions of dollars.
Undeterred after nearly a year of closeddoor meetings, a consortium […]

 Nearly a third of students attend charter or suburban schools
Detroit News
1/15/2007
Mike Wilkinson
Nearly a third of Detroit’s students — or about 51,000 — are attending charter schools and suburban public districts, causing enrollment and budgets at other districts to surge while Detroit Public Schools shrinks.
About 5,000 Detroit residents left for other schools this fall alone, according […]

 The Columbus Dispatch
1/14/2007
Catherine Candisky
A proposed constitutional amendment aimed at fixing the state’s schoolfunding system would give every child in Ohio a “fundamental right” to a quality education, The Dispatch has learned.
Making an education a “fundamental right” would create a court-enforceable mandate, a higher legal threshold than Ohio’s current constitutional requirement that the state maintain a […]