CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ohio already is spending $1 billion on private schools, but under Gov. Mike DeWine’s proposed two-year budget, they could spend another $250 million.
Meanwhile, DeWine’s budget reduces public school funding by $100 million.
We’re talking about the redistribution of wealth and how it’s hurting Ohio school kids on Today in Ohio.
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Here’s what we’re asking about today.
Is this the next step in Ohio Republicans’ efforts to decimate public schools? How can we justify giving this much money to private schools? What did Laura Hancock learn about Mike DeWine’s proposed two-year budget?
Donald Trump is firing people at random from federal government jobs, with no plan or actual thought, and these firings have occurred in Northeast Ohio. Where do we see it?
How do people in the marijuana industry believe Ohio’s Republican lawmakers are undermining voters by changing the rules that voters approved for marijuana legalisation?
Can the cost of removing paint left by protesters at Case Western Reserve University really reach $400,000? How many people were charged with causing these damages?
It was forged in corruption, but who can stop it? How much have we all paid to subsidise two unprofitable coal plants as required by HB6, Ohio’s most corrupt law ever passed, the result of $60 million in First Energy bribes?
Why is the FBI looking into a Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judge?
How is a Northeast Ohio high school involved in the Trump administration’s efforts to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion?
They are nowhere near the late 1970s peaks, but have RTA ridership numbers begun to recover from the pandemic’s lows?
Nobody is seeing snowy owls along Lake Erie this month, but birdwatchers are excited about the rare waterfowl that have appeared. What are they?
