DeRolph v. State

I am compelled to take a position adverse to that of today’s majority. This is not because I oppose mediation of this dispute, but because I believe that the timing of the majority’s order is incongruous. To be mediating this matter at this time signifies only that the schoolchildren of Ohio have suffered yet another loss. Once again, the state’s educational system is faced with the prospect of further tweaking, while the fundamental changes to the overall system will be lacking.

As this court has emphatically pointed out several times, our state’s school-funding system has been plagued by an…