Ohio public schools are hurting. Ohio political leaders seem determined to hurt them more.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Or does just he love private, for-profit, and religious schools so much that it doesn't matter to him what happens to the 90% of students in public schools?
54% : In Ohio, 90% of students attend public schools, while only 10% attend private schools.
49% : Or maybe it's not hatred or indifference; it's a kind of gristle-chewing contempt for public schools combined with a deep, warm, abiding love and affection for private, for-profit, and religious schools.
40% : Maybe he's just callously indifferent to public schools.
34% : What I do know is that since Ohio's system for funding public education was declared unconstitutional more than 25 years ago, Ohioans have only seen two brief periods of time when anything resembling a constitutional school funding formula has been in place: the evidence-based model passed and signed under Gov. Ted Strickland in 2009 and then quickly overturned by Gov. John Kasich in 2011, and the bipartisan Cupp-Patterson Fair School Funding Plan that was put in place in 2021.
31% : But if state lawmakers cut even more from public schools, all these headlines will keep getting worse, and Ohio communities, schools, teachers, students and families will all suffer the consequences.
25% : And that's why I wonder, does he hate public schools?
24% : Does Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman hate public schools?
24% : But as an observer, it just really comes off like Matt Huffman hates public schools.

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