MINI CAMP DAVID--A U-shaped table is the setting as members of the Joint Committee on School Funding and Accountability and the Coalition of school districts that successfully sued the state, gather together for the first time since the supreme court ruled that the method of funding public education is unconstitutional, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 25, 2000. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

PUT YOUR HEAD ON MY SHOULDER--Sen. Roy Ray, R-Akron, appears to be resting his head on the shoulder of Sen. Robert Cupp, R-Lima, during a hearing of the Joint Committee on School Funding and Accountability, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 25, 2000. Actually Ray is confering with an unseen aide who is behind Cupp. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

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)

THE AKRON PERSPECTIVE--Brian Williams, superintendent of the Akron City Schools, speaks during a hearing of the Joint Committee on School Funding and Accountability, at the Riffe Center, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, July 25, 2000. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)