The Akron Beacon Journal article's data is from an unpublished LSC report written in October 2000, two weeks before the election. The article's authors speculate that LSC held onto the report because it would have helped the campaign of Justice Alice Resnick. The creation of new mandates was a point of concern for the court majority, especially Pfeifer, in the DeRolph II decision. The governor, General Assembly and education policy makers must understand that the system is way out of whack due to years of local districts carrying the state's water in funding Ohio's educational system. Local districts have also taken a beating from state and federal unfunded or underfunded mandates.
Children bring different needs to the schoolhouse.
The education of children with special needs such as a disability, a gifted talent or a non-traditional academic interest also require a lot of resources. The bottom line - a quality adequate education is not cheap. This effect requires more resources to correct the damage done by the initial lack of funding in the previous years. Some say the public will not support new taxes to fund education. To support their argument, those with this opinion point to the miserable defeat of Issue 2 in 1998.