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Buckeye Institute presents “policy briefing on school spending inequities” tomorrow


Bummer that I cannot attend this event in Columbus on Thursday, September 20.  But I confess, from the Buckeye Institute’s description of the briefing, it sure sounds more like the briefing itself is going to be unequitable:

A Buckeye Institute report, to be released next week, blasts a hole in school bureaucrats’ demands for more spending under the pretext of addressing inequities in Ohio school funding.  The superintendents’ and teacher unions’ so-called ‘Get It Right’ ballot amendment campaign wants billions more in tax dollars spent on schools in the name of the Ohio Supreme Court’s DeRolph decision.

However, as will be documented in our report Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An Analysis of Intra-District Spending Patterns in Ohio, it turns out that school bureaucrats themselves routinely create large inequities through their spending patterns within school districts.  As the title points out, the inequities of spending within school districts disproportionately impact the district’s poorest students.

Ohioans should insist that public schools put their own house in order before committing to a constitutional amendment that would put school bureaucrats in charge of the public purse under the guise of addressing inequities in school spending.

Hmm.  Think Buckeye Institute’s head, David Hansen, means that charter schools, which are funded by tax dollars and some of which are for-profit, need to “put their own house in order” too, given all the problems they have with meeting students’ needs? 

If anyone goes, I hope you’ll blog about it. I’ve requested a copy of the report for those of us who can’t be in attendance.  Read more here for how to sign up and go.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:42 am September 19th, 2007 in Announcements, Education, Ohio, Politics 

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