How education is funded and how that money is spent.
It’s been a week since the Ohio House revealed its version of the state budget, and along with it a revised school funding formula. In that time, several education insiders and reporters have tried to estimate how much the House plans to spend on education compared with how much Governor John Kasich’s plan would. But [...]
Poor, rural school districts who felt like big-time losers under Gov. John Kasich’s school funding plan fare better under the school funding plan introduced in the House of Representatives this week. Use these maps to see how your district fares under the two plans.
Yesterday, Ohio House Republicans dealt several blows to Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal, including some significant changes to his school funding plan. The biggest difference between Kasich’s proposal and the House’s is how school districts’ base levels are calculated. Kasich’s plan aimed to equalize funding between poor and rich districts by basing school funding on local property [...]
When Governor John Kasich announced his new school-funding proposal, most superintendents around the state were relieved to hear no one would get a funding cut. Then there was a lot of cheering when Kasich said his new formula would mean rich schools got less and poor schools got more. As it turned out, the Governor’s [...]
It all started when the Medina school board quietly — very quietly — approved a raise of $83,000 for Superintendent Randy Stepp, bringing his total compensation up to $186,000. Then the Medina Gazette reported on other benefits the district provided to Stepp, like repayment of $172,000 in old student loans, tuition for an MBA and [...]
State lawmakers are likely to replace the school funding formula proposed by Gov. John Kasich with a different way of distributing state money among Ohio’s K-12 schools, Gongwer News Service reports. The new funding formula proposed by legislators may be similar to the “Building Blocks” model instituted in 2005 under former Gov. Bob Taft. That [...]
Carolyn / Flickr Ohio Public Radio’s Karen Kasler reports that state lawmakers are spending this week working through changes to a new school funding plan behind closed doors: House Speaker Bill Batchelder, who leads a super-majority caucus of 60 Republicans, says he plans to spend a lot of spring break looking into the formula, which he [...]
As school superintendents across the state ask the legislature to include money for transportation in a new, proposed school school funding formula, the Olentangy school district in central Ohio is facing a different kind of transportation problem. 10TV News has this exclusive report:
Testing in schools is moving quickly from pencil and paper to computers. That’s kind of a problem for rural schools; many don’t have the technology. But a new curriculum, called the Common Core, is pushing districts in many states – including Ohio – into the Internet era. That’s because the new standardized tests that accompany [...]
The managers of Ohio’s state teacher pension fund made nearly $4 million in bonuses last year.
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