TAX DROP--Last minute tax filers going through the drive-through at the Main Post Office were faced with a trash barrel amid the mail boxes, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 15, 1997. Hopefully no mistakes were made.

THE DRIVING FORCE--William Phillis, Executive Dir. of the Ohio Coalition of Equity and Adequacy of School Funding, watches students participate in a rally at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 15, 1997.

SCHOOL FUNDING RALLY--Luis Cruz, a sixth-grader from Shuler Middle School in Cleveland, holds a sign during a rally on the Ohio Statehouse grounds, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 15, 1997. Thousands of students from across the state gathered for presentations by the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding.

I'M WORTH IT--Students from throughout Ohio leave the Ohio Theatre, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, April 15, 1997. The students attended a School Funding Solutions seminar presented by the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding. The Ohio Supreme Court recently ruled that the state's current method for funding public school education was unconstitutional, and has given the General Assembly until March 24, 1998 to reach a solution.