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)