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By the Dayton Daily News
| Sunday, November 22, 2009, 12:00 AM
Headline shocker of the year: “Other states in much worse budget shape than Ohio.”
And it’s not a joke. The nothing-if-not-sober Pew Center on the States set out to compare the states systematically on several different measures relevant to the economic crisis.
Most striking about the report is that it doesn’t amount to a lot of hair-splitting. At hand here are some serious differences.
Set aside California, which everybody has heard about. Illinois faces a budget gap — a shortfall of revenues — of 47 percent. Arizona, 41 percent. Nevada, 39 percent. Compared to these, Ohio’s single-digit problem looks sweet.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Friday, November 20, 2009, 02:36 PM
This commentary is written by Gregory Bernhardt and Thomas J. Lasley II. Bernhardt is dean of the College of Education and Human Service at Wright State University. Lasley is dean of the School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton.
It’s time for Ohio to get tough with colleges that aren’t making the grade when it comes to preparing future teachers and turning out graduates who know what works in the classroom.
Getting good new teachers in Ohio classrooms is an essential goal. Underperforming institutions, whose graduates show a pattern of failing to get their students to make at least one year of academic growth, should be closed or reconstituted with new leaders, new curriculum and better instruction.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Friday, November 20, 2009, 02:36 PM
This commentary is written by Gregory Bernhardt and Thomas J. Lasley II. Bernhardt is dean of the College of Education and Human Service at Wright State University. Lasley is dean of the School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton.
It’s time for Ohio to get tough with colleges that aren’t making the grade when it comes to preparing future teachers and turning out graduates who know what works in the classroom.
Getting good new teachers in Ohio classrooms is an essential goal. Underperforming institutions, whose graduates show a pattern of failing to get their students to make at least one year of academic growth, should be closed or reconstituted with new leaders, new curriculum and better instruction.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Friday, November 20, 2009, 06:03 AM
For University of Dayton sports fans, last weekend had the feel of a dream being fulfilled.
Since the early 1990s, Dayton has aimed for a day when it would field intercollegiate teams that earned respect for the way they competed, succeeded and represented the university. That time seems to have arrived, considering the accomplishments in 2009 in men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, football, volleyball and baseball.
The blossoming of UD athletics has resulted from a purposeful effort to improve management, facilities and coaching.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00 AM
Warren County has a serious public safety concern when it comes to a fuel terminal in Clearcreek Twp. — one that the 10 companies doing business there have a responsibility to address.
Everyone would benefit if a water tower big enough to douse a major fire at the terminal is constructed. Negotiating a deal about who pays would prevent a legal fight, which would be costly. In any agreement, though, the companies must pay the most for a project that primarily protects their interests.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Friday, November 20, 2009, 12:00 AM
Do you feel safe when you’re walking alone on a dark, unlit and abandoned street that lacks signs?
Of course not. We go out of our way to avoid those situations.
Therein lies one of the challenges for people trying to revitalize downtown Dayton.
Even though downtown is safe — and statistics prove it — many people have the perception that it isn’t. In other ways, it can be intimidating if you don’t go there often.
Michael Ervin, a retired physician and health insurance executive who is behind an initiative called the Greater Downtown Plan, believes his group has to address safety. And Ervin says it will.
Two Dayton police officers who work downtown have become key contributors, and they have innovative ideas worth supporting.
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By the Dayton Daily News
| Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 02:59 PM
Good intentions, awful form.
That’s how it felt at the Dayton Region Rally on Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Seventeen speakers on a program that ran two-plus hours. Maybe if the event had been less passive, maybe if even the spontaneity hadn’t been scripted, it might have been energizing.
But, man, this was homework. Thank goodness there weren’t many young people there, the very people the community desperately wants to attract to “work, live and play” in Dayton.
They would have been unimpressed. They would have been out of that arena.
After all, here we have an event — billed as a rally, as in pep, as in get excited, as in feel good about your team — that was built on lectures.
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Ellen Belcher is the Dayton Daily News opinion pages editor. She writes about state government, education, the environment, higher education and all things Dayton.
Martin Gottlieb is an editorial writer and columnist for the Dayton Daily News opinion pages. He focuses on the political process itself and does such national issues as war, the economy, taxes and Social Security, as well as a hodge-podge of local and state issues.
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Bill, I moved here from Texas about 5 years ago. The property taxes are doggone high and the business