Money needs to be appropriated over the next ten years to totally revamp and remodel our schools so as to provide our young people with proper facilities to learn in. We need to look at how we are currently training our new teaches and create programs to educate today's students. Proficiency The Ohio proficiency testing program is out of control. The tests that we are currently using were not designed to evaluate individual students nor to compare one district tot another. The tests are neither standardized nor normed and as a result do not give good comparative results.
Tests scores are only one measure of a students progress and ability.
Health Care Medical patient's today are increasingly facing the problem of having their medical treatment directed by their health insurer or HMO based on cost and not what is medically advised by their physician. I believe that Ohioans should be able to make medical decisions based on their doctor's advice and not on what their insurance company is willing to pay.