Strickland / Phillips cut more local school funding

Morgan Local getting 2% cut under Strickland / Phillips plan.

Previous post detailing Athens County's cuts.

Ted Strickland and Debbie Phillips both campaigned on fixing school funding. Especially the perceived inequities between poor Appalachian schools and rich suburban schools.

So, the great irony is that their "plan" to "fix" education funding is to cut funding to most poor schools and give more money to rich districts. I thought the dems were supposed to be for the "poor and disadvantaged".

Since Strickland and Phillips ran on "fixing school funding" and this is the best they can do (cut funding for poor schools and increase funding to rich schools (Upper Arlington = 15% increase, which just happens to be where Phillips attended school), I hope they don't try to help us with anything else. We won't be able to stand too much of government style help much longer.