Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled on four occasions that the way our state chooses to fund schools violates the rights of taxpayers, parents and students. Instead of fixing the system, Bob Taft and his friends in the General Assembly have made a conscious effort to ignore the Court's ruling. The schools in our state have fallen behind in educating our children because the Bob Taft and the General Assembly has not fixed the system and taxpayers are being asked to approve more and more property tax issues as a result of this inaction.

Ohio's Constitution clearly states it is the responsibility of the state to provide a "thorough and efficient" system of schools in our state and the answers to the funding woes of our school districts must come from our General Assembly, but our legislators aren't listening. Not only is the General Assembly ignoring the school funding problem, it continues to make it worse by giving increased amounts of money to charter schools. Although test results clearly show the charter school experiment to be a failure, one-party rule continues to promote charter schools as the solution to our school funding problems.

Ohio needs legislators who are dedicated to reforming the unconstitutional system of school funding that Bob Taft and his friends have refused to fix.

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