Episode 30: Jeff Givan

Okay.

You just go ahead.

You post all the time about education.

And so first off, there's a big comparison between private school funding and public school funding.

And I know this drives a lot of people nuts.

There's been letters from superintendents in the area.

If you look at a lot of schools, they're making cuts.

You look at Lima City schools, they're facing cuts.

You look at Bath, they're canceling school because they're The air conditioning, one of my coworkers, her daughter doesn't want to go to Bath next year because she doesn't want to go to the middle school that doesn't have air conditioning.

Shawnee, I'm from Shawnee.

We've got mold issues now.

I've got a 100-year-old building with the bell tower falling off, and it's just...

I don't know what the solution is because I can't blame every single one of these district school boards.

You can't do that.

It can't be all of the board's faults.

And so it has to be a funding thing.

What's going on here?

So back in late 97, there was a lawsuit called DeRolf, and it basically claimed that our funding of schools was unconstitutional.

And so basically, since 1997, we have been running unconstitutionally and never have addressed that.

So

the funding was not high enough? That's why it was unconstitutional? It was not fair

because it was based upon local.

So like Shawnee had a higher tax base than, say, some of the poorer school districts in town.

Okay.

So those school districts always had more money.