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CORAS TO
DISCUSS "THE NEXT STEPS IN FUNDING A THOROUGH AND EFFICIENT
SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR OHIO"
ATHENS,
Ohio -- The Coalition of Rural and Appalachian Schools
(CORAS) will be meeting to continue discussions on Ohio's
school funding issues. The meeting, which is open to the
public, is being held on Wednesday November 17, 1999 at 9:00
a.m. in Logan, Ohio at the Olde Dutch Restaurant (located on
Routes 33 and 664, 20 miles southeast of Lancaster and 25
miles northwest of Athens on Route 33.) Keynote speakers of
the meeting include Kern Alexander, President of Murray
State University and Richard Maxwell, Deputy Executive
Director of the Buckeye Association of School
Administrator's (BASA).
Over the
past 12 years, superintendents in Southeastern Ohio have
been at the forefront of efforts to bring about improvements
to Ohio's system of educating its children, through the
reform of the way schools are funded. Kern Alexander's study
of school funding in Ohio, initiated and financed by CORAS
with support from the Ohio University College of Education,
set the state's current school reform movement into motion.
The Supreme Court will soon be handing down its second
decision on this issue.
Alexander
will discuss "Financing Education in an Era of Change." He
will address various structures (formulas) by which states
distribute funds to school districts and go into depth on a
school finance structure that conforms to the principles of
law that have been identified in the Ohio school funding
suit (DeRolph). Maxwell will follow Alexander's discussion
with "Some Observations on Funding the Ohio Basket." Maxwell
will provide insights into financing the Ohio "Basket of
Essential Learning Resources" the report recently released
by the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School
Funding.
Both
Alexander and Maxwell have testified twice before Judge
Linton D. Lewis, Jr. in the Perry County Court of Common
Pleas, once in the original DeRolph trial in 1994 and then
again in 1998 when that Court reviewed the response of the
General Assembly to the Supreme Court's directive to "fix
the system."
If you
have any questions, or need additional information regarding
CORAS or its upcoming meeting, please contact CORAS, at
(740) 592-2665.
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