Monthly Archives: April 2011

In 2012, Schools Will Lose State Revenue Worth $413 Per Student, On Average, In Montgomery County

The OEA website shows how the Kasich budget will impact each school district.  Because this budget has no Federal stimulus monies (SFSF Stimulus), reduces or eliminates state money used to replace the Tangible Property Tax (TPP) and Utility tax replacement … Continue reading

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Superintendent Urges Citizens To Protest “Unfair” Cut In State Revenue To Kettering Schools

In a letter to each Kettering resident, Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Jim Schoenlein, warns that if the state Budget Bill (HB 153) goes through in its present form, over the next two years Kettering will lose $5.5 million in revenue … Continue reading

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For Ohio’s School Superintendents, The Repeal Of SB-5 Creates A Classic Leadership Challenge

The coming statewide debate over repealing Ohio’s SB-5 will pose a classic challenge for school leadership. In 2030, I can imagine a Ph.D. candidate might be asked: Suppose it is 2011 and you are the Superintendent of Schools for a … Continue reading

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What Is The Educational System That Would Empower An Explosion Of Virtue?

My friend, John, who is my age, 63, recently told me that he could count only two and one-half accomplishments in his life. Waa. I prepared this graph as an encouragement. Based on the wishful idea that under ideal conditions … Continue reading

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Progressives Should Push A Debate Over National Identity — Over Remembering Who We Are

The showdown over the federal budget is not a debate about money, it is a over our national character, a debate about how we see ourselves. I like the scene from “The Lion King” when the voice booms down the … Continue reading

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When Computers Are Billions Of Times More Intelligent Than Humans — What Should Be The Aims Of Education?

Ray Kurzweil has a wonderful view of the near future where disease and poverty disappear, where humans enjoy miracle after miracle enriching and elevating their lives, where the world itself is healed of environmental degradation and where death itself is … Continue reading

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