Reply #12: "Blackwell's deepest cut would be to state's future " [View All]

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Monday, April 25, 2005

Brent Larkin

Plain Dealer Columnist

If you think education is important to a state's economic future, you'd better start looking for a new place to live.

That's because Ohio is only one election away from becoming perhaps the worst place in the na tion to educate the young - from kindergarten all the way through graduate school

And that election isn't the one they will hold next year for governor. It's the one apparently headed for the ballot this November.

Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, the GOP front-runner for governor in 2006 and the darling of the far right, wants to amend the state Constitution in a way that would restrict state spending by using a formula based on inflation and population growth. The idea resonates with voters in a huge way, with polls showing it passing by a ratio of nearly 2-to-1...