School is back in session this month for most students and retailers are stocked with loose leaf paper and plenty of number two pencils. Buy those supplies this weekend in Ohio and you'll get a break, thanks to a three-day sales tax holiday on many school essentials and clothing. Details on preparing and paying for back to school, on this edition of The Sound of Ideas.

Guests:

Lora Miller, Director of Governmental Affairs and Public Relations, Ohio Retail Merchants Association

Sherri Bufford, 3rd Grade Teacher, Alfred A Benesch School, Cleveland, Ohio

Jamie Zagar, Macaroni Kids Cleveland East

Maria Burk, The United Way of Medina County

Kimberly Palmer, Senior Editor/Financial Analysts, U.S. News & World Report Money

Kim Anderson, Student, Kent State University

Phoebe Petrovic, Student, Yale University

Dwight Venson, Student, John Carol University