As Issue 1 heads to the polls in November, the process of redistricting will once again be decided by the voters.
The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement. Redistricting doesn’t just decide the makeup of districts for state and congressional senators and representatives, but also the way in which those lawmakers are responsive to their constituency, and in turn, what policies and issues get the spotlight in Ohio .
”Under a different process decided through a citizen-led redistricting commission, Cropper sees a pathway to get back to paying for the public schools in a way that the Ohio Constitution dictates, rather than with taxpayers helping pay for private schools and awaiting full funding of the Fair School Funding Plan.“They’ve been trying to push universal vouchers for a decade at least, and we’ve always been able to push them off until the supermajority,” Cropper told the Capital Journal.
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