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Critics said the rankings don’t pay proper attention to the severe financial difficulties in which millions of Ohioans find themselves.

More than three-fifths of property taxes fund public schools, with lesser portions funding fire and police departments, libraries, townships and city and county governments.

“A public school violates the Constitution when it promotes religion by giving special access to school property to a religious release time program,” Freedom From Religion Foundation states.

Ohioans for Cannabis Choice filed a petition for a referendum to repeal Ohio Senate Bill 56, which is set to take effect March 20.

A handful of education bills are still under consideration by state lawmakers.

They were protesting a masked ICE agent’s shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was behind the wheel of her SUV when the agent, Jonathan E. Ross, shot her from point-blank range.

The case centers on whether or not North Canton had the right under Ohio’s probable cause standard to inspect a rental property, despite the fact that the owner declined the inspection.

The department announced the first measles cases of 2026, three children from Northeast Ohio. The state health department said all the children were unvaccinated at the time.