Ohio's governor and House of Representatives are supporting a state budget bill that would add billions of dollars in state spending on public education over the next decade and would mandate more decisions about public education at the state level. Yet a new Fordham Institute & Catalyst Ohio survey released today, Checked Out: Ohioans' Views on Education 2009, indicates that 74 percent of Ohioans believe that if the Buckeye State decided to spend more money on the public schools, the money would not get to the classrooms and improve education and instead "would get lost along the way." Further, just 3 percent of Ohioans want the governor making "decisions about how to spend tax money allocated to Ohio's public schools" and a meager 4 percent trust the state legislature with the task. Read our take on the survey's results in today's special edition of the Ohio Education Gadfly.
