The simple fact is we know how to educate children trapped in poverty. We need to feed them breakfast, lunch and dinner, because children cannot learn when they are hungry. We need to make sure children have a safe place to live, so they are not at risk walking to and from school and are not living with the risk of being homeless. But most importantly, we put all children in classrooms with a ratio of 12 students to 1 teacher. The money and time that is being wasted on the ridiculous testing requirements, useless computer techniques like teaching kindergarteners to do power point and privatizing public schools should be going into reducing class sizes.

Here in Ohio, I know of one poverty stricken rural district that has been slammed by the budget cuts Governor John Kasich's(R) and the GOP controlled legislature have instituted in order to cut the state income tax for the wealthiest Ohioans. Class sizes for 6th graders are going to be between 30 and 40 kids per class.

Ohio has been a leader in moving public tax dollars from public schools to corporations and creepy religious outfits. From Plunderbund "Ohio taxpayers paid $914 million to Gulen-affiliated charter schools last year and school officials used much of the money to hire Turkish teachers and administrators with questionable credentials." http://www.plunderbund.com/2014/07/07/abj-investigation-reveals-more-financial-testing-and-immigration-troubles-at-gulen-charters/ See also this article "Are Religious Charter Schools The New Norm Under John Kasich?" http://www.plunderbund.com/2014/08/28/are-religious-charter-schools-the-new-norm-under-john-kasich/ "A Google search lists an address for FCI Academy as 2177 Mock Road, Columbus, and another Google search for the Living Faith Apostolic Church shows the church being located at the same address. The co-location of the church and the school, along with the fact that the wife of the church’s pastor is president of the charter school’s governing authority, should raise very serious issues with the Ohio Department of Education, State Auditor. Attorney General, and other state monitors related to the legal status of this school as a qualified recipient of state education funds."

How many public school teachers could we hire with $914 million dollars going to this one charter outfit? 16,321 with a salary of $56,000 per year. The theft of tax dollars in Ohio is an outrageous scandal that is being ignored while Kasich is just handed another 4 years as governor to continue his thefts in office for his corporate and religious backers.