The only race that is going to be impacted seriously over the success or failure of public school finance is the governor's race.

Given the recent Texas Supreme Court decision requiring a restructure of the state school finance system by June 2006, the legislature will meet in early January to accomplish this task. Why approve $44 million in new debt now, when a new finance system may fund proposed bond expenditures at the state level and existing debt could be impacted by more restrictive property tax limits? The debt portion of our school tax has increased by 82 percent in just six years and taxpayers are feeling exhausted.

It's frustrating that school finance in Ohio is so screwed up that people in the community had to resort to this. It's insane.

I've had some success and some disappointment. What bothers me is the definition of failure. Second isn't good enough around here.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.