REACHING A COMPROMISE--Ohio House Minority Leader Ross Boggs, D-Andover, right, confers with Finance Committee Chairman Tom Johnson, R-New Concord, prior to the start of session, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Jan. 12, 1998. The House passed H.B. 650, the fiscal 1999 budget for primary and secondary schools, which included amendments brought forth by minority Democrats. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

FRUSTRATION IN THE SENATE--Senate Pres. Richard Finan, R-Cincinnati, voices his frustration over the latest school-funding plan to Sen. Roy Ray, R-Akron, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

FRUSTRATION IN THE HOUSE--House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson, R-Reynoldsburg, meets with Minority Leader Ross Boggs, D-Andover, as the Legislature contines to struggle with the latest school-funding plan, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998. Democrats and conservative Republicans continue to oppose placing a one-half cent sales tax on the ballot to fund schools. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

REPUBLICANS RULE--Ohio Senate Pres. Richard Finan, right, R-Cincinnati, gestures as he and Sen. Roy Ray, R-Akron, listen to debate on the school-funding bill, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1998. The one-cent sales tax bill, which passed by a 20-13 margine, will go to the voters for approval on May 5. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)

DEMS WALK OUT--Senate Minority Leader Ben Espy, left, D-Columbus, and Sen. Robert Hagan, D-Youngstown, lead a procession of democrats and their staffers out of the Senate Chamber after refusing to vote on an anti-labor campaign finance bill, at the Ohio Statehouse, in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, April 2, 1998. (JACK KUSTRON/photoj.com)