William Phillis of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy, has been tracking the movement by school districts to bill the state for money lost to charters. Ohio has many charters rated D or F by the state that divert funding from public schools. Be sure to read the linked letter.
He writes in his latest post:
“Morgan Local School Board invoices the state for $1,138,235 in local funds deducted for charter schools
“School districts continue to invoice the state. The Morgan invoice is for local levy funding only. Superintendent Lori Snyder-Lowe’s thoughtful letter to the state emphasizes the education abuse suffered by charter students residing in the Morgan Local School District. The dismal performance of charters should be of grave concern to all local district officials and educators. Is it not a fiduciary responsibility of local school officials to ensure their students the most efficacious educational opportunity possible?
“State officials have the constitutional responsibility to secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools. The Ohio system was declared unconstitutional four times by the Ohio Supreme Court. Since those declarations, $7 billion has been deducted from school districts for the parasitical charter industry.”
William Phillis
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A little off topic but on the topic of education funding lead by bad state governors, have you seen the video that Seth Meyers did on Sam Brownback? It discusses all the tax cuts and effect that they have had on the funding schools. It is available on Youtube.com
The “local” funding is important because people in Ohio were assured that no local funding would go to charter schools.
It’s not true. The state simply put in a back-door method of local funding without the consent of people in Ohio. Charter schools are not locally run and have no local representatives, yet they are funded locally. That was not the deal the ed reform lobby sold the people of this state.
Public schools might be able to weather ed reformers running state government, if it were just that they were solely focused on opening charter schools. Unfortunately, they also run public school policy.
Oh, that one hurts. We just had not one but TWO of our most abusive top-down, do-what-I-say district administrators join Jeb Bush’s “chiefs for change” — that superintendent training organization where running public school policy simply means bowing down to charter-school corporations.
“State officials have the constitutional responsibility to secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools. The Ohio system was declared unconstitutional four times by the Ohio Supreme Court. Since those declarations, $7 billion has been deducted from school districts for the parasitical charter industry.”
You can bet that ALEC will be working on proposals for constitutional amendments that will rework the language of “secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools” to something like “secure a thorough and efficient system of school choice.”
Constitutions in many states have language about a “common” school system and variations on “thorough and efficient.” That language could be modified to focus on “highly efficient” (meaning on-line, fewer teachers) and “effective” (meaning test scores, competency-based) and “basic” (meaning no frills, pay for extras).
The political environment has warmed up enough and the PR for choice, efficiency, effectiveness, and only-the-basics have been so widely propagated that voters may be quite willing to change state constitutions, even though such changes are thought to be difficult to attain and not often put into motion.
Bets anyone?
Two bits says Show Me Staters would reject any change in the constitutional language concerning public education (and that’s even with a strong Catholic sector in St. Louis).
With so-called eduction reform, you can never be sure where the incompetence ends and malice begins, or where the parasitism ends and the predation begins.
Excellent description.
CONGRATS to Bill Phillis and the FORTY-NINE public school districts that have adopted resolutions to bill the state for charter school deductions!
1. Woodridge (Summit County)
2. Logan-Hocking (Hocking County)
3. Troy (Miami County)
4. Elyria (Lorain County)
5. Parma (Cuyahoga County)
6. West Clermont (Clermont County)
7. Cardinal (Geauga County)
8. Keystone (Lorain County)
9. Northmont (Montgomery County)
10. Jackson (Stark County)
11. Streetsboro (Portage County)
12. Firelands (Lorain County)
13. Lake Local (Wood County)
14. Bowling Green (Wood County)
15. Belpre (Washington County)
16. LaBrae (Trumbull County)
17. Southington (Trumbull County)
18. Beaver Local (Columbiana County)
19. Northridge (Montgomery County)
20. Claymont (Tuscarawas County)
21. Southern Local (Perry County)
22. Indian Creek (Jefferson County)
23. Green Local (Summit County)
24. Garaway Local (Tuscarawas County)
25. Xenia (Greene County)
26. Noble Local Schools (Noble County)
27. Adena Local Schools (Ross County)
28. Gallipolis (Gallia County)
29. Oak Hills (Jackson County)
30. Monroe Local (Butler County)
31. Liberty Union -Thurston Local Schools (Fairfield County)
32. Tuscarawas Valley Schools (Tuscarawas County)
33. Amherst Schools (Lorain County)
34. Huron City Schools (Erie County)
35. Fairborn City Schools (Greene County)
36. Champion Local Schools (Trumbull County)
37. Washington Local Schools (Lucas County)
38. Euclid City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
39. Sheffield-Sheffield Lake City Schools (Lorain County)
40. Dayton City Schools (Montgomery County)
41. Bristol Local Schools (Trumbull County)
42. North Ridgeville Local Schools (Lorain County)
43. Brecksville-Broadview Heights City Schools (Cuyahoga County)
44. Fairbanks Local Schools (Union County)
45. Plain Local Schools (Stark County)
46. Wellston City Schools (Jackson County)
47. Vandalia Butler City Schools (Montgomery County)
48. Twinsburg City Schools (Summit County)
49. Morgan Local Schools (Morgan County)
Thanks for the list. I’ll contact the school districts in my area that haven’t signed. Signatures reflect fiscal responsibility for local taxpayer money.