On the recordOctober 28, 2000
just 2 weeks ago, in the City of Cleveland, at a high school called East High School, the roof fell in. I called the Department of Education and said, ``Is there emergency money at the Federal level to assist my public school in a situation like this?'' Sadly, it was reported that there was none. In Ohio, the Supreme Court has determined that the way in which schools are funded throughout Ohio is unconstitutional. It is done by way of property tax. So that means that in one city in Ohio $2,000 is spent on education per capita, but in another city in Ohio $15,000 is spent on each child per capita. I ask my colleagues to vote for this motion to instruct because our schools need funding and assistance.
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