[Ohiogift] Ohio lawmakers plan school funding fix

[Ann Sheldon]

I actually participated in the special ed, gifted, ELL sub group of the school funding work group mentioned in the article. The work group ended shortly about the same time ODE put out its gifted education funding study. The recommendations to the full group were left undetermined. To read the ODE funding study as well as OAGC’s response, please go to http://oagc.com/advocacyUpdates.asp <http://oagc.com/advocacyUpdates.asp> and scroll down to the “2018 gifted funding study” area. 

Jerry is right that gifted advocates need to talk to their Ohio representatives and senators not just about gifted funding but the lack of accountability for those funds. 

Ann 


> On Oct 22, 2018, at 5:48 PM, Jerry MacDuff via Ohiogift <ohiogift at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> Today's issue of The Columbus Dispatch has an article on Ohio school funding, a topic that might be the state's largest ignored orphan, here:
> https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181022/after-latest-report-cards-ohio-lawmakers-plan-school-funding-fix/1 <https://www.dispatch.com/news/20181022/after-latest-report-cards-ohio-lawmakers-plan-school-funding-fix/1>
> 
> This need to address statewide, equitable school funding has been ignored or stymied for decades, and any mention of funding for gifted ed seems so far to have been ignored, at best. This is a sad state of affairs, and it does not bode well for our future.
> 
> Maybe list members can move their members of the statehouse to pull themselves out of this academic stupor.
> 
> Jerry MacDuff
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