If you are reading this, more than likely you have internet access. In fact, you probably take it for granted. Not so in many of the homes with doors I knock on to campaign for the Dayton City Commission. Using Google to look things up, or email to communicate is as foreign to them as Read More
Dayton Public Schools were one of the biggest losers when NCR picked up and moved to Atlanta. NCR paid a lot of property tax that funded the system and when the University of Dayton acquired the 25 acres with the former World Headquarters building for $18 million, that revenue went away. UD doesn’t have to Read More
Finally, something that makes sense- the Governor wants to increase the school year to 200 days to match the rest of the industrialized world. However, phasing it in over ten years is lame. In his State of the State speech, (Gov.) Strickland also proposed school funding changes to bring the state’s share of the cost Read More
Spending is down, sales tax revenues are falling, real estate values and the correlating property taxes are falling- and even the “Fair tax” advocates are pro-consumption taxes, so it’s time to institute a fixed national sales tax on all items purchased over the Internet, collected Federally, and distributed per capita, by student- for education. Not Read More
Ohio State just lost another football national championship. Boo-hoo. Maybe it’s a curse. Maybe when the State Legislature gets serious and deals with the un-constitutional school funding system the curse will be lifted. Educating children should come before winning football games. I’d rather live in a State with the best schools in the country, with Read More
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