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We are closely watching the issue of teacher staffing. We have seen some of our best teachers leave the profession entirely or move to other states or to private schools, and we question whether young people will choose teaching when they see tax plans that pit income tax rates against public school funding and other bills that show some in the legislature undervalue our public schools. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/sep/08/kansas-faces-looming-teacher-shortage/...

“Charter schools have been touted as the key method by which Ohio was going to improve public schooling in Ohio for over a decade.  Charters have long been given flexibility by the state to try innovative programs and have been frequently exempted from many of the same regulations that constrain traditional public schools.  Charter schools have also been promoted as providing competition to “failing” urban schools under the premise that the competition would cause both the charters and the districts to make dramatic improvements. According to StateImpact Ohio, “Charter schools were supposed to offer students who weren’t succeeding in...