God help us all. Then again, Obama may actually want that, as there isn't a snowball's chance in you-know-where that such a ticket would go ANYwhere.

Thanks, this is what I've been trying to say. There are PLENTY of things in SB5 that even teachers, firefighters, and police can probably admit is not all that bad in such economic times. Voting NO on this bill, for a large portion of the 65% of the state that will do so, is to show Kasich and the state legislature that the bill is overreaching by a country mile.

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in 50 words or less?
SMFCSD has:
-- cut more than $2 million since 2006
--to face another $1 million cuts in new state budget cuts
--is among the bottom 3 or 4 in administrative and instructional costs per pupil in the county.
See: http://smfschools.org/site.cfm/SOS.cfm
(see links on the right side of page for breakdowns of reductions & taxpayer burden information)

I agree with Adam, I do not see the School Board Superintendent and its administrators rallying against Kasich to get the money back he took from their school system. But instead, they all are falling in line with Kasich, some even bashing their own school employees and teachers and then coming to the community for a tax/levy increases to make up with the shortfall that Kasich created.
I only see the school employees and teachers rallying against this SB5 issue, but then is the school board superintendent and fell comrades exempt from the same cuts? I know the governor and his administrators are exempt as they even all got raises
Maybe there should be a state wide tax payer revolt. Have every school district in the state go into receivership to they get the Ohio tax money that used to go to the schools back into the schools instead on given to special interest groups for tax breaks

al,
how can they "get the money back he took from their school system"? The money is not there to be "gotten back". There is no money.

That was a renewal. Stow has not received NEW money in nearly a decade.

Jake R.,
I believe you are correct about the previous levy. That being said, the new complication of not knowing the milage rate of the upcoming levy until after it is passed has completely justified my NO VOTE opinion. The lack of transparency and fiscal responsibility of the current BOE and School Administration make me unwilling to commit any more money to their use.

The levy renewal coming up in 2012 will be for one of the many levies we currrently pay right now and will be over 7 mills, so I'm not sure what the $5 million levy Adam is talking about that's coming up in March. I think this comment section is also in other cities so he may not be referring to Stow, but his own town.

In regard to Jake's comment, I wonder how our district was able to continue to give raises and step raises and even bonuses during the last decade without 'new' money? I wonder how, with hundreds less students, they've been able to increase staff during that decade with just their $50+ million annual revenue and continue to have contracts that even in the last year called for freezes on some types of raises yet they siad there's not enough money for busing? Why do contracts get approved before new levies are put to a vote and then they claim there will be a deficit, but of course only if the renewals also fail? We certainly need some new board members and maybe new laws, or just enforce what we now have if it remains.