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Historically, Ohio's public schools have been funded with a combination of local property tax revenue and money from the state. [5] This led to disparities in the quality of education in more affluent districts, where high property values led to greater funding, and urban and rural districts, [ 1 ] where low property values left students with ...
Mountains of research show that drug education strategies of the 1980s and 90s were ineffective. Schools are hoping an updated approach will have more of an impact. D.A.R.E. didn’t work.
The Ohio Fair School Funding Plan and its predecessors from prior legislative sessions are the first major attempts at a large-scale overhaul in Ohio in decades. [2] Currently, the state’s education funding law is an attempt to “equalize education for all Ohio children, regardless of how rich or poor their community is,” according to the ...
United States Federal law and many state and local laws increase penalties for illegal drug-related activities in drug-free school zones. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The penalties vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction in terms of whether they stand alone as separate offenses or serve as a sentencing enhancement, and in terms of the defenses available.
Under a settlement with the Ohio tax commissioner, NEXUS pipeline officials will pay Stark County entities $4.8 million in taxes. Under a settlement with the Ohio tax commissioner, NEXUS pipeline ...
[18] Similarly, tax deductions and credits are denied where for illegal bribes, illegal kickbacks, or other illegal payments under any Federal law, or under a State if such State law is generally enforced, if the law "subjects the payor to a criminal penalty or the loss of license or privilege to engage in a trade or business."
Starting in 1983, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program sent police officers into classrooms to teach fifth- and sixth-graders about the dangers of drugs and the need, as Nancy Reagan ...
Sin taxes result in the illegal manufacture, smuggling and/or outright theft of the taxed products, sometimes for personal use but often for sale on the black market. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Critics of sin tax argue that it is a regressive tax in nature and discriminates against the lower classes.