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Thursday, April 22, 1999

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Survey Finds Ohioans Want More State Money for Public Schools

Most Ohioans think public schools are not adequately funded and would favor an increase in state taxes earmarked for schools.

That's the finding of a state-wide survey by the Scripps Survey Center at Ohio University.

Fifty-seven percent of the respondents said Ohio schools get too little funding, while 24 percent said school funding is about right, 7 percent said it is too high and 12 percent were undecided. Fifty-three percent said they would favor an increase in state taxes earmarked for schools, while 34 percent said they would oppose it and 13 percent were undecided.

Support for increased state funding and a state tax increase came from respondents in cities and suburbs, as well as those in rural areas. A state tax increase was favored by 57 percent of those in the cities and suburbs and 52 percent of those in rural areas.

For more information, please visit the University News Services Web site to read the full text of this press release.

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Notes of Interest...

• Professor Gerhard Weinberg will speak on "World War II in Postwar Politics" in Room 194 of Irvine Hall at 7:30 p.m. tonight. Weinberg is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is an authority on the history of World War II-era Germany. This annual Costa Lecture is sponsored by the History Department and is free and open to the public.
• Free childhood immunizations will be offered by the mobile health unit of the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine according to the following schedule: April 30, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mac-N-Bec's in Albany. Free immunizations also will be provided at area kindergarten registrations as follows: Trimble, today from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.; The Plains, April 26 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and Coolville, April 28 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, call 1-800-844-2654.
• Hookfin signs with Atlanta. Ohio University tailback Steve Hookfin (Arkadelphia, Ark.) reached an agreement to sign as a free agent with the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday evening. Read more about it.
• Transportation from Athens to Columbus is available. Click here for details.
• The Ohio University Calendar of Events is now available online. Visit http://redbud.cats.ohiou.edu/calendar/ to access.
  

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