December 11, 2008 - 10:01
News: Ohio

Poll: Economy trumps education as gov't priority

The economy is Ohio’s most important problem, voters say in a new poll, with Gov. Ted Strickland’s campaign promise to reform education a distant second.

Seventy-seven percent of voters say the economy is the state’s biggest problem according to a survey from Quinnipiac University’s Polling Institute released Thursday. Only five percent of respondents said education was the most important issue facing the state.

A majority say their personal finances are “good” or “excellent” while 47 percent said their finances are “not so good” or  “poor.”

This may have implications for Strickland’s agenda as he has one year to make good on his 2006 campaign promise to reform how Ohio funds education within his first term.

Strickland hasn’t proposed reforms yet and is currently meeting residents across the state to talk about how to reform the school-funding regime.

Most of those polled do not consider schools to be in trouble: 69 percent rate their local schools as good or excellent and 50 percent said the same for schools across the state.

On how to change the funding of schools, 55 percent said more money should be spent on “poorer” school districts and 36 percent said it should remain the same. People are evenly split on whether they’d support a state tax hike to finance the funding for poor districts.

Redistribution from “rich” districts is apparently favored.

Sixty-eight percent of those polled said money should be taken from these districts and given to poor districts. Republicans support the idea 58 to 34 percent.

The poll found that about half said they support a State Board of Education proposal to spend $1 billion more on education to equalize school funding.

Justin Miller is a PolitickerOH.com Reporter and can be reached via email at noreply@politicker.com.

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