Cleveland Business Interests, Foundations Spend $100K on Writing, Lobbying for Cleveland Schools Plan
This morning, Gov. John Kasich will formally sign legislation that will create significant change in how the Cleveland school district operates. Those changes include altering how teachers are laid off and allowing local tax dollars to be shared with charter schools. Getting the bill passed took cooperation between Cleveland’s Democratic mayor and Ohio’s Republican governor, and a lot of money, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Stay tuned to StateImpact Ohio online and on air later today for more on the bill’s signing.
- Source: Cleveland
- Via: Cleveland Plain Dealer
GCP head Joe Roman said his group and the foundations spent more than $100,000 on lawyers and other expenses to develop the latest plan, revise it during negotiations, poll residents about it and promote it. He called the effort “one of the most broad-based public-private partnerships that our county has ever witnessed.”
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