Drawing on Diversity, Ohio Coalition Seeks Common Ground

Columbus, Ohio

In Cleveland, people are at loggerheads over a plan to give the mayor control over the schools. Meanwhile, Ohio's Republican governor, George V. Voinovich, wants to expand a private-school-voucher program that is bitterly opposed by the public education community. And last week, Ohioans were anxiously awaiting a decision from the state supreme court on whether the state's system for financing its schools is constitutional.

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