OPEN DOOR POLICY--Gov. Bob Taft enters the cabinet room for a news conference concerning the Ohio Supreme Court's school-funding ruling that the state's method of funding public schools remains unconstitutional, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, May 12, 2000. Taft said that he is willing to include all interested parties, even the plantiffs, to finish the task of education reform. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS--State Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Tave Zelman speaks during a news conference concerning the school-funding decision reached by the Ohio Supreme Court, in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday, May 12, 2000. Zelman said that she agreed with the court's rulling that the state's method of funding public education is unconstitutional. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com