The chair of the Ohio House Education Committee says he’ll fight “kicking and screaming” any effort to repeal the Common Core, a new set of expectations for what students should know and be able to do in math and English at each grade level. Rep. Gerald Steblelton tells Gongwer News Service he is a strong [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When the Cleveland Teachers Union and the Cleveland Mayor’s office reached an agreement on a package of legislation that would significantly change how the Cleveland schools operate, Union President David Quolke said the plan is not perfect, but shows the union and the mayor’s office can work together. Today, we see the initial results of that [...]
Ohio schools should not expect any signifcant changes in their state funding for at least another year. Schools faced major state funding cuts for the current and next school year under a funding model Ohio lawmakers enacted in June. That funding model was supposed to be temporary. But on Tuesday House Republicans announced that they [...]
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