Cincinnati’s first-ring suburbs face challenges including changing demographics, economics, and security. The ways the 49 cities, villages, and townships in Hamilton County meet these challenges is the focus of this series, First Suburbs—Beyond Borders. The series explores the diversity and innovation in these longstanding communities, highlighting issues that demand collective thought and action.
Faced with a backlash against rising property taxes, two neighboring school districts in Hamilton County, both in desperate need of financing, are seeking new sources of funding.
The Mt. Healthy school district and its neighbor to the south, the North College Hill school system, have turned to an earnings tax as a potential source of support for their school systems, which both face big deficits and further cuts to teaching staffs and programs…