7/30/09
 
The Columbus Dispatch
 
Doug Caruso
 
A watchdog group says Ohio does a better job than many states at reporting how it is spending federal stimulus money. But it says there is plenty of room for improvement.
Good Jobs First, a Washington, D.C.-based group that tracks economic-development issues, looked at the stimulus reporting Web sites of all 50 [...]

July 29, 2009
 Dear Governor Strickland and Superintendent Delisle:
 Thank you for joining 45 other states to develop common academic standards for our schools.  We share your conviction that this state-led initiative will benefit students in Ohio and across the nation for several reasons.
 For one, it is an opportunity for Ohio to build on the progress the [...]

 In response to the current recession, 30 states this year have enacted tax increases. Another seven states are considering similar measures.
This response is consistent with past practices. States often reduce taxes during economic expansions and increase them during downturns. In the recession of the early 1990s, some 44 states raised taxes; in the early [...]

7/28/09
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nancy Badertscher

Citing an unprecedented drop in state revenues, the State Board of Education cleared the way Tuesday to furlough teachers for three days — and possibly as many as seven more.
Officials have estimated that the state can save $33 million a day for each day that the state’s 120,000 teachers take [...]

7/27/07
 
The Washington Post
 
Alec MacGillis
 
Researchers have found that being raised in poor neighborhoods plays a major role in explaining why African American children from middle-income families are far more likely than white children to slip down the income ladder as adults.
 
The Pew Charitable Trusts Economic Mobility Project caused a stir two years ago by reporting [...]