CORAS Names New Executive
Director
Richard
Fisher, retired superintendent of the
Perry-Hocking Educational Service Center,
has been appointed Executive Director of
the Coalition of Rural and Appalachian
Schools (CORAS), effective January 1,
2000. He succeeds Max Evans, who has
served as Executive Director for the past
one and one-half years. Fisher is a
founding member of CORAS.
The
mission of CORAS, established in 1988 in
partnership with the Ohio University
College of Education, is to serve as an
advocate and support the continuous
improvement of educational opportunities
available to the region's children and
youth. The organization has 111 member
school districts and higher education
institutions in Appalachian Ohio.
A
1990 study commissioned by CORAS revealed
great inequities in the Ohio school
funding system and led to the formation of
the statewide Ohio Coalition for Equity
and Adequacy of School Funding. The latter
organization brought suit in Perry County
against the state, resulting in a 1997
Ohio Supreme Court decision that the
school funding system was
unconstitutional. The case is before the
Ohio Supreme Court again and a decision on
the constitutional status of the system is
expected from that body by the spring of
2000.
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more information, please read the
full
text of this
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