School spending: Ohio's other obesity problem

With a financial squeeze ('strangle hold' might actually be more accurate) on the horizon for Ohio, voters are eager to hear how soon-to-be elected officials will handle the state's mammoth budget hole. Not surprisingly, many fear the budget saw (see photo below for a special Fordham interpretation of 'budget saw') will fall on K-12 education as it represents 40 percent of the state's budget. As Terry mentioned in last week's Gadfly article, education spending in Ohio has been increasing at an alarming rate over the past two decades, even as enrollment numbers have declined....