COLUMBUS – Today, Public Policy Polling released a July 2014 poll of the Ohio statewide races. The poll found the gubernatorial race has tightened, showing 44% of Ohio voters would support Democratic nominee Ed FitzGerald, and 45% would support Republican Governor John Kasich. More information is available HERE.
COLUMBUS — Just weeks after documents surfaced showing Ohio’s top education officials covered up apparent charter school cheating, officials at the same school did not tell parents that their kids were caught having oral sex at a school function, a teacher told the Ohio State Board of Education.
COLUMBUS– The latest Public Policy Polling Ohio Survey shows the State Auditor’s race between Democratic candidate John Patrick Carney and incumbent Dave Yost as nearly neck-and-neck. 40% of people polled stated they would vote for John Patrick Carney, while 42% stated they would vote for Dave Yost, and 17% remained undecided.
CINCINNATI – Today, Auditor of State candidate and State Representative John Patrick Carney joined southwest Ohio leaders to voice concerns about local public tax dollars being lost to failing charter schools in Hamilton and Butler Counties.
The most recent Ohio Department of Education report card data shows thousands of dollars in school funding are being diverted from highly ranked public schools to lower ranked or failing charter schools.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Ohio has yet to regain at least 120,000 jobs it lost since the recession began more than six years ago.
When the national unemployment numbers for May were released last month, they were accompanied by a certain degree of fanfare. The U.S. economy had recovered the jobs it had lost since the recession officially began in December 2007. Ohio’s jobs report for May, released two weeks later, wasn’t as eventful.
