Malign neglect in Ohio education funding? Cleveland schools are Exhibit A.

Fred Holiday, a kind, thoughtful, Harvard-educated Cleveland schools superintendent who came here in 1982 determined to make a difference. But a few members of the city’s then-elected school board tormented the soft-spoken Holiday, hoping he would leave. He left by taking his own life. “Use this event to rid yourselves of petty politics, racial politics, greed, hate and corruption," Holiday wrote in his suicide note. "This city deserves better. The children deserve better.” They still do, writes...