Leaders from public school districts in Summit County on Tuesday evening shared a clear message with the public: The state’s commitment to their students is broken — funding policies that direct public dollars to charter and private schools.
“The reality of Ohio’s education system is we are funding multiple, parallel education systems which are inequitable, unbalanced and unfair,” said Pat Shipe, the president of the Akron Education Association, the labor union that represents more than 2,000 teachers and staff in Akron Public Schools.
“The state legislature has created a deeply inequitable education system in Ohio where public schools are expected to serve every child, [with] the most stringent rules, while for-profit [systems] receive your public tax dollars with far less or even no accountability for those,” Shipe said…