Bully on the Block

Not content with suing the taxpayers of Nebraska in order to find a friendly judge to order the State to ladle out more state aid for its wanton spending, the Omaha Public $chool board now threatens to sue local government in an attempt to bite off large chunks of neighboring school district territory. The OP$ public relations machine, as usual, wraps its aggression in warm phrases like, its "for the kids," to allow all the children within the city limits of Omaha to share in a wonderful environment of multiculturalism, non-sexism, and a sorry curriculum that produces the lowest standardized test scores in the metro area. Board members are seemingly oblivious that thousands of Omaha parents have voted with their feet to reside in other-than OP$ school districts. Transparent is that OP$ motivation stems from 2 objectives, 1) to gorge itself on property valuation-rich territory to fuel more tax revenues, and 2) to raise its overall test scores, so that it does not lose federal funding under the No Child Left Behind requirement that financially penalizes persistent low scores. Contact your state senator today to pass legislation prohibiting annexation of other school district territory without a vote of the people.