Columbus City School District

Big Buckeye football game on Saturday at Indiana, and we had, uh, horrible things happen yesterday in Oregon, so we will get to all of that.

F- uh, Columbus City School families are, uh, upset, very upset about the closure of school buildings in the district, and, um, we also have a major, major data breach.

Uh, if you're one of the 1.4 million people at Central Ohio who, uh, get their healthcare through, uh, doctors at Central Ohio Primary Care.

My primary doc, uh, used to be there until he retired.

It appears somebody's trying to poison Frank LaRose, the secretary of state of the state of Ohio, or at least whoever opens the mail in his office.

Um, the person who I guess you could say could be blamed for the spending overage of, depending on who you believe, 22 million or 40 million, on insurance with Aon, the company that was handling Columbus City Schools teachers' medical coverage, uh, they are bulletproof, not gonna be fired and shouldn't be fired according to an investigation.

And Ilhan Omar doesn't have her phone.

Oh, the feds do.

Uh, DiFabbo got overpaid $54,000, and his suspicious, shall we say, uh, contentious, disputed raises, uh, were forwarded to the Auditor of State and the Ohio Ethics Commission.

I don't think Ms. Hale has had any of her behavior referred to the Auditor of State.

But she's gonna keep her job, and DiFabbo's gonna keep his money, and Columbus City Schools is going to continue to be dysfunctional because that's just kind of their MO.

Now, as I said at the outset, is somebody trying to kill our Secretary of State, Frank LaRose, who or, or whoever opens his mail? US Postal Service inspectors, um, seized a piece of mail addressed to the Secretary of State's office on, what would that be, Monday? Uh, because the package contained a white powder.

I grew up, like, in more so I think north side.

So I went-- The first school that I went to was, like, Columbus City Schools.

Oh, really?

So, yeah, yeah.

All right, we do have a lot to talk about today, a lot making news.

So continuing budget woes at Columbus City Schools, more school closures are on the chopping block.

We'll find out more about those later this week.

But right now we'll talk about a little about what we know is currently on the table.

So we'll talk.

We'll discuss that.

All right, so Columbus City Schools, as we've talked about really for the better part of two or three years at this point, continues to deal with ongoing funding issues.

So at a town hall yesterday evening, Superintendent Dr. Angela Chapman said the current school funding system just isn't working.

Students say they were told the show might be canceled after a parent complained and are disappointed they won't get to share its message.

Columbus City School employees face potential health care cost increases of up to $1,000 per month.

ONN's Amy Steigerwald reports with John Caneglio, president of the Columbus Educators Association.

The change comes following a consulting deal that cost the district millions and forced it to tap into its self-insurance reserves.