Third time's a charm for schools?
Strickland vows to fix Ohio's broken education system after it's found unconstitutional
By: Alaina Buzas
Issue date: 3/29/07 Section: Campus
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Since being elected this past fall, Governor Ted Strickland has made it his mission to fix the state's system of education.
"Ohio is a great state and there is no justification for us to be where we are educationally," Strickland said. "... My obligation as Governor is to solve this problem."
Yesterday, Strickland stuck to his obligation with the kick off his KnowHow2Go Campaign on campus. Strickland spent part of his day at the University talking about his proposals concerning higher education.
KnowHow2Go is a media campaign aimed towards eighth through tenth grade students encouraging them to consider post-secondary education. Strickland said the campaign will "try to hook [students] on the idea that college is something that can and should be part of their futures."
To help encourage students to start looking sooner at higher education, Strickland has proposed changes in the financial aid available to students for college. As part of the proposals, financial aid for higher education will move toward being based on need as opposed to merit. Strickland hopes to target potential students who are stuck because their parents' income is too high to receive financial aid, but too low to send them on to post-secondary education without any help.
"We think these are common sense proposals that will benefit hundreds to thousands of Ohio students," Strickland said.
In order to make these proposals work, Strickland has asked Ohio Universities to collaborate hand-in-hand with government officials.
"I've decided to ask Universities to work with the new Chancellor of Higher Education ... to try to develop meaningful compact between the state and institutions," Strickland said.
According to the governor, this agreement should help to freeze tuition, which has been increasing at a rate of nine percent a year for places of higher education in Ohio. Strickland hopes that controlling tuition will have both a psychological effect as well as a political impact on the state.
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