THE COALITION SPEAKS--William Phillis, Executive Dir., the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adaquacy in School Funding, makes a point during a hearing of the Joint Committee on School Funding and Accountability, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 25, 2000. The Coalition successfully sued the state in the DeRolph v. Ohio case in which the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state's method of funding public education is unconstitutional. Also seen are from left: Larry Miller of the Coalition, Phillis, Colleen Grady of the Ohio Assoc. for Gifted Children and Charles Gossett of the West Clermont School Dist. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)