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- Even though most eyes are focused on the state budget bill (which passed out of the House this week and is headed to the Senate), there is other legislation out there to discuss. One important piece is Senate Bill 127, currently becalmed in the Senate Education Committee, but demanding the attention of lots of talking heads, including our own Chad Aldis (whose previous testimony on the subject is here). Why? Because it would change the way low-performing public schools are identified and the way the state intervenes when a school is so-designated. Sounding familiar now? (Dayton Daily News, 4/10/25)
- Well, the leaders of financially-troubled Trimble Local Schools this week finally got what they’ve been after for nearly six months: a state declaration of fiscal emergency. Let’s hope no one down there is clapping too loudly for the “achievement”; because while it does mean some additional state intervention to help alleviate the problem, it also means that the district’s budget hole has been found, for the third time, to be even larger than previously calculated. All of the various mistaken sums of the past seem to be attributed to long term and persistent “errors” by the revolving door of treasurers. But let’s at least hope the revolving—and the mistakes—are finally at an end. (Athens Independent, 4/10/25)
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