Jan Resseger explains how the Ohio legislature, which is devoted to charters and vouchers, managed to cheat districts like hers while boasting about “fair student funding.”
In the new state budget, the Ohio Legislature supposedly fixed an inequitable scheme for funding the state’s extensive private school vouchers. But it was a bait-and-switch. Public schools were losers, especially in poor districts.
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Ohio is not a good state to locate in if you’re a public school family. The state simply doesn’t have enough legislators who support public education. The public schools have declined in national comparisons every year that the ed reform echo chamber have been in control and the state is so heavily gerrymandered there’s no real political or ideological debate.
The public school supporters in the legislature are a minority and they can limit some of the bleeding but the state is on a downward trajectory as far as public education.
Public schools barely get state funding. There’s no positive pro-public education policy at all. Most legislaslative sessions are exlcusively devoted to ed reform priorities- funding, promoting and marketing vouchers and charters.
Anything good or positive that has happened in this state as far as public school families has happened in spite of the ed reform echo chamber. They have contributed nothing of value to public school students or families for the last 20 years, and they utterly dominate policy.
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“Racial resentment is indeed among the strongest predictors of Tea Party membership.”
Ohio state Senators Matt and Steve Huffman are Republican. I don’t know what their opinion about the Tea Party is.
Sen. Matt Huffman and his first cousin, Sen. Steve Huffman, who was let go by his private employer, for a racist view expressed in a congressional hearing, both support privatization. If Matt Huffman, who is Catholic, prefers funding of religious schools and defunding of public schools, he should be upfront about it with Ohio voters. (Most of Ohio voucher money goes to Catholic schools.)
The students’ experience in inner city Catholic schools vs. suburban Catholic schools can easily be understood. A person can review the practices of the Cristo Rey school chain (3 in Ohio) as contrasted with schools like Moeller high school in Montgomery, Ohio (a Cincinnati suburb) or, across the river in Kentucky, Covington Catholic high school (Trump ally, Lin Woods, represented Cov Cath student, Nick Sandermann, in his lawsuit against media.)
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