About ten years ago the voters of Cleveland were offered a desperation proposal. Pass a levy that would raise a cool billion dollars, and the infusion of money would set the school system upright and on the way. Fix dilapidated schools, tear down obsolete ones, build new ones, etc etc. The voters of Cleveland took a deep breath and approved it. Nothing changed. The money is gone. And the children are still getting crap education.
Democrat (of course) Frank Jackson is a brave man, and he has republican Kasich in his corner.
BTW, thanks to their repealing SB 5, the union thugs of Lorain County next door are watching 180 layoffs, about half of them teachers, take the guts out of their bankrupt school system.
Here in NJ a lot of new teachers were laid off, and a lot of prospective public-school teachers never got their first job out of college, because of the funds directed towards established tenured teachers. They constantly suck more money from the taxpayers, and the property tax cap ended the annual ritual of watching our taxes go up $500+ annually, so the “newbies” and “wanna-bes” were out of luck.
I have no sympathy for them; I’m glad they failed in their attempted rape of the NJ taxpayers.