While Democrats and Republicans refuse to act on school funding, your school district and taxpayers will end up picking up the costs
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While the Democrats and Republicans refuse to act on school funding, your school district and taxpayers will end up paying the costs
Press Release-March 24, 2008
Last month Governor Strickland announced that the Ohio Department of Education had to cut 50 million dollars out of their budget.....most cuts concerning state money going to the County Educational Service Centers. Today I received the ESC bill for 2009 for ESC services for the Struthers City Schools....last year the bill was $419,000.....next year the bill is $553,000. So because state reps and state senators can't work together to fix state funding for schools, something mandated by the Ohio Supreme Court 10 years ago, the bills get pushed down to the local boards of education...which means we must pay the increase, cut costs in other services, or ask the local taxpayers to ante up with more money for local levies. Your school board is receiving the same fee increase this month as well.
That's why we need independent state representatives to speak for the people and quit playing political football regarding state funding of education. The 2 major parties will not fix this program before the November election. Last week saw the lowest percentage of school levies passed in the state for the last couple of years.
Let's send a state representative to Columbus who will do what's right for the taxpayers and poor and working class in the valley, not the over 100 lobbyists and PACS who contributed to Bob Hagan's political campaign fund last year.
Sincerely,
Dennis Spisak- State Rep Candidate Green Party- 60th district
Memeber- Struthers City Schools Board of Education
campaign website: http://votespisak.tripod.com
Press Release-March 24, 2008
Last month Governor Strickland announced that the Ohio Department of Education had to cut 50 million dollars out of their budget.....most cuts concerning state money going to the County Educational Service Centers. Today I received the ESC bill for 2009 for ESC services for the Struthers City Schools....last year the bill was $419,000.....next year the bill is $553,000. So because state reps and state senators can't work together to fix state funding for schools, something mandated by the Ohio Supreme Court 10 years ago, the bills get pushed down to the local boards of education...which means we must pay the increase, cut costs in other services, or ask the local taxpayers to ante up with more money for local levies. Your school board is receiving the same fee increase this month as well.
That's why we need independent state representatives to speak for the people and quit playing political football regarding state funding of education. The 2 major parties will not fix this program before the November election. Last week saw the lowest percentage of school levies passed in the state for the last couple of years.
Let's send a state representative to Columbus who will do what's right for the taxpayers and poor and working class in the valley, not the over 100 lobbyists and PACS who contributed to Bob Hagan's political campaign fund last year.
Sincerely,
Dennis Spisak- State Rep Candidate Green Party- 60th district
Memeber- Struthers City Schools Board of Education
campaign website: http://votespisak.tripod.com
Strickland's latest escapade with the new lottery machines (for education....oxymoron?) are another sign that perhaps he has given up on a real solution to education funding in the state of Ohio.
Can the republicans offer a solution? No, they want to privatize schools as an experiment that has failed in Ohio. There is no solution for public education in Ohio at this point. This is a tragedy of leadership here. Pinning hopes on chance is a lousy excuse for progress.
We are left pandering to corporate interests looking for tax breaks.
Pathetic Ohio.