Cutting $1.8 billion in state funding for public schools in the 2011 biennial budget has affected districts across Ohio. Never would have seen that one coming, right? Of the 172 of Ohio’s 613 K-12 school districts that responded to a Policy Matters Ohio survey, 65 percent said their planned spending was greater than their expected revenues. That’s [...]
The sponsor of a bill — House Bill 136 — that would expand Ohio’s school voucher program from urban areas to the entire state is scaling his bill back in response to opposition from school districts, the Columbus Dispatch reports. The Dispatch’s Catherine Candisky writes that “GOP sources” say: HB 136 sponsor [Rep. Matt Huffman] [...]
Howard Lake / Flickr Ohio school districts and boards of education are lobbying against a bill (HB 136) that would expand Ohio’s school voucher program from urban areas to the entire state. What has school districts upset is that, under HB 136 as it currently stands, the state would deduct about $5,800 from a school [...]
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