I really wish I could have thought of a shorter title. But what else could I say. Strickland is a bully when it comes to educational choice. Strickland’s idea of educational choice reminds me of the early Ford cars… you can have any color you want as long as it’s black. From Right Angle Blog.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Gov. Ted Strickland on Saturday signed the state’s two-year, $7.8 billion transportation budget but vetoed a provision on charter school busing that traditional public schools said would make them lose too much money.
The transportation budget also imposes tougher regulations on school bus drivers over objections by the state’s largest school employees union.
It’s the first piece of legislation Strickland has agreed to sign since the Democrat took office in January. The bill, which provides funding for highway and road projects for the next two years beginning in July, unanimously passed the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday.
Strickland, who has the power to cut certain provisions in spending bills without vetoing entire measures, took out the provision that allows charter schools to create their own transportation systems.
Charter schools are privately run schools that receive public money.
State law now requires that charters use the transportation system of the traditional school district in which they’re located, unless they can get an agreement to opt out. Just like the public money that follows the students, the state transportation dollars would then follow them to the charters.
Is Publican Education now the new AMTRAK? So parents…. we want to make the choice painfully clear to you… public education needs your money and we want you to make the right choice for your children…. whether you like it or not.
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