De Luca, associate professor of educational administration at the University of Dayton, teaches school finance to graduate students.
Property taxes are very unequal across the state.
Adjoining states have developed systems that work well there, but they probably would not work in Ohio, she said. Michigan's model is more or less successful and the Kentucky model, although it needs some revision, is working. But they put a lot of control in the hands of the state, and that won't work in Ohio. The wait for the Supreme Court decision has been frustrating, De Luca said. We need a complete redesign of the school funding system in the state of Ohio and legislators have not tried to do that.