Outsider's View of the Ohio School Funding Crisis
No one else has really checked the other side of the big money grab scheme dealing with reforming Ohio's school funding system. Our Ohio Governor and Legislator really did us a favor by not coming up with a fix.
In 1998 I compiled the data, produced the charts and wrote the paper: The History of the Ohio School Funding Crisis: An Outsiders Point of View . It argues against everything The Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding is trying to do to the Ohio school funding system. I welcome anyone to challenge anything in the paper. I will publish your comments.
To prepare the report I collected 1996 EMIS data from all 611 Ohio school districts. I searched for correlations between performance and several measures. These measures include expenditure per pupil, student teacher ratio, average teacher salary, teachers with masters degree, and median family income. An analysis of the actual data used by the plaintive in the DeRolph is presented. Big decisions were made based on statistical shotgun patterns.
On March 24, 1997, the Ohio Supreme court ruled that the Ohio system of school funding was unconstitutional. Specifically, Ohio's elementary and secondary public school financing system violates Section 2, Article VI of the Ohio Constitution, which mandates a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state. See: DeRolph v. State (1997), 78 Ohio St.3d 193 .
On October 20, 2003, the Court ended its involvement in the case. See details: DeRolph history . The Ohio General Assembly's response was to form a Blue Ribbon Task Force that was charged to come up with recommendations to solve the problem. They made some minor recommendations but the system remains about the same as it was in 1997.
In 1998 I compiled the data, produced the charts and wrote the paper: The History of the Ohio School Funding Crisis: An Outsiders Point of View . It argues against everything The Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding is trying to do to the Ohio school funding system. I welcome anyone to challenge anything in the paper. I will publish your comments.
To prepare the report I collected 1996 EMIS data from all 611 Ohio school districts. I searched for correlations between performance and several measures. These measures include expenditure per pupil, student teacher ratio, average teacher salary, teachers with masters degree, and median family income. An analysis of the actual data used by the plaintive in the DeRolph is presented. Big decisions were made based on statistical shotgun patterns.
On March 24, 1997, the Ohio Supreme court ruled that the Ohio system of school funding was unconstitutional. Specifically, Ohio's elementary and secondary public school financing system violates Section 2, Article VI of the Ohio Constitution, which mandates a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state. See: DeRolph v. State (1997), 78 Ohio St.3d 193 .
On October 20, 2003, the Court ended its involvement in the case. See details: DeRolph history . The Ohio General Assembly's response was to form a Blue Ribbon Task Force that was charged to come up with recommendations to solve the problem. They made some minor recommendations but the system remains about the same as it was in 1997.
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