<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4">Friends --</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Since the 1990s, Ohio courts have ruled in favor of more equitable funding of schools, but nothing has been done by the legislature to meet this goal. Schools generally, and gifted ed more specifically, have paid a price.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Here's a look at this from Thomas Suddes, in The Cleveland Plain Dealer and other newspapers:</font></div><div><font size="2">
</font><font size="4"><span><font size="2"><a href="https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2018/12/it-took-barely-a-split-second-for-ohio-lawmakers-to-vote-themselves-a-pay-raise-while-school-funding-reform-has-stalled-for-two-decades-thomas-suddes.html">https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2018/12/it-took-barely-a-split-second-for-ohio-lawmakers-to-vote-themselves-a-pay-raise-while-school-funding-reform-has-stalled-for-two-decades-thomas-suddes.html</a></font><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span>Is all hope lost for our children?</span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt"><font size="4">Terry Adams</font><br></span>

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