Doing the Lord’s work
Thursday, March 5th, 2009 By Mike MaurerRon Adler of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education is a longtime friend of reporters and the Buckeye Institute, and he is truly doing good work. Here’s an excerpt from his newsletter, citing a Plain Dealer Editorial:
Gov. Ted Strickland is discovering how hard it is to get out of Ohio’s school-funding briar patch. In 2003, then-Congressman Strickland and his fellow Democratic legislators sent a strident friend-of-the-court brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in vain on behalf of Ohio’s landmark school-funding case. The Ohio Supreme Court had declared Ohio’s school funding unconstitutional four times, but the Republican legislature hadn’t budged. The brief cited the “disastrous effects” of funding disparities between rich and poor school districts. Affluent Beachwood and poor East Cleveland were the examples chosen to highlight the disparity. Now, under the budget Strickland himself has proposed, 14 of Ohio’s 20 poor school districts — including East Cleveland — would lose state money in the next two years.
And the governor unfairly slashes charter schools, many of which serve the poor, by 20 percent.
His cuts are inequitable. His cuts are unconscionable.
If you aren’t supporting OCQE, the question is, why not?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Why do you think Charter schools should get public money when they do not educate children any better than the worst public school? You do not have the same accountability requirements of Public Schools, you do not have the same criteria as Public Schools, you do not have to follow the same guidelines as Public Schools. You are basically schools for profit and all your profit goes to your owners. Your “faculty” is not only uncertified, but also unqualified. You do more damage to children than good.