READY FOR THE TASK AHEAD--Ohio Superintendent of Public Education John Goff, left, gestures as he speaks to Gov. George Voinovich prior to the start of the second meeting of the Ohio School Funding Task Force, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, April 14, 1997.

TRYING TO FIX SCHOOL FUNDING--Ohio Sentate Minority Leader Ben Espy, right, questions a witness during the second meeting of the Ohio School Funding Task Force, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, April 14, 1997. To the right is Budget Director Greg Browning who is the chairman of the task force.

THE BALL'S IN YOUR COURT--Nicholas Pittner, lead attorney for the victorious plantiffs in the DeRolph v. Ohio case, gestures as he testifies before the Ohio School Funding Task Force, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, April 14, 1997.