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‘Hilliard Schools, Columbus Taxes,’ was a familiar refrain for decades. Who pays now?

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Paul LambertOriginally published on EducateHilliard

Ever since the 1980s, when the population of the Hilliard School District began exploding in response to the Penick vs Columbus Board of Education desegregation lawsuit, we’ve heard the phrase “Hilliard Schools, Columbus Taxes.”

It was a powerful sales tool for the new home builders who were banging out houses by the thousands in the parts of…