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Buckeye Blues?
Inside Higher Ed reports that Governor Strickland's reforms of Ohio's higher education system have become an issue in the gubernatorial election. Notably, he is the first Ohio Governor able to appoint the Chancellor of the state’s university system. In taking on this authority as governor, following new legislation he encouraged, Strickland has acted appropriately. As ACTA President Anne D. Neal wrote in 2007, the governor's ability to appoint a chancellor allows the state's highest elected official to reform higher education in a way that Ohio's board had been unable - or unwilling - to do. Like big city mayors who appoint their K-12 chancellors, the governor is empowered to effect real changes - and he is accountable to the public.
And reform? We think Ohio is on the right path, rewarding educational achievement, as opposed to simply appropriating and spending tax dollars and calling more money "better." There's more work to be done - of the 13 Ohio public university curricula ACTA surveyed in our What Will They Learn? report, only 4 got a B, and none got an A - and we hope that no matter who wins the Governor's mansion, the vital work of reforming Ohio education will continue.
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on October 27, 2010 at October 27, 2010 11:03 AM
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