Among the things that appealed to voters about Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland were his promises to fix school funding. But, as the Columbus Dispatch made clear in a page-one article Sunday, he has not done squat, nor does he intend to.
"I'm not going to sit down and write out a plan," he said. "This is something that has to be developed, and it has to evolve and it has to be a result of consensus and building support for it."
The article makes mention of a "box" in which the Governor finds himself, but strangely never mentions what box or what the hang-up is.
Let me guess. The box is the certain knowledge that Ohioans are not going to approve yet another tax for government to spend on schools. This means that if there's a fix for school funding the state is going to have to make cuts in its bureaucracy and other non-essentials. That's the box, and so distasteful is it that Strickland can't even approach it.
But that's exactly what plagues school funding. It just isn't important enough, when measured beside the needs of bureaucracy.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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