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The governor's private calculations for public schools
Published on Friday, Mar 27, 2009
The governor now has set in motion the inevitable revisions. Yet his process invites doubts about the fundamental issue of transparency.
An ''evidence-based model'' should present clearly and fully the evidence supporting the funding decisions for districts. Such clarity and openness would dispel any suspicion the governor is fudging, say, in computing teacher salaries, to fit budget constraints.
With that in mind, it is disturbing to learn that a private consulting firm is heavily engaged in the plan revisions. Ordinarily, the job would go to the state Department of Education. A key difference? The department is obligated to make its records public. The private consulting firm is not.
According to the Associated Press, the firm, Driscoll & Fleeter, under contract with the Education Tax Policy Institute, which does research for the Ohio School Boards Association, is sharing its work with the governor's staff and legislators. The concern is that by relying on a private firm, the governor has abandoned transparency. What's wrong with a complete public airing of the numbers and assumptions?
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stow, oh
Posted 06:48 AM, 03/27/2009
"What's wrong with a complete public airing of the numbers and assumptions?"
The more of the details that are known of Gov. Strickland's tax increasing education 'reform' plan, the quicker and stronger the resistence to it will be.
