Showing posts with label School Funding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School Funding. Show all posts
Thursday, May 7, 2020

State Hides the Ball on K-12 COVID Cuts

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This is why I think people are driven nuts by government. A couple days ago, Gov. Mike DeWine announced a $300 million cut would be com...
Thursday, November 21, 2019

Speaker's got a curveball. But is it a good one?

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Well, that was unexpected. During the debate on fixing Ohio's school funding system, much time has been spent poring over the Cupp-Pat...
Monday, October 28, 2019

Too Much Peanut Butter: How the Cupp Patterson School Funding Plan's Base Formula Bakes in Inequity

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What has become abundantly clear during these initial hearings of HB 305 -- the standalone version of the so-called "Cupp-Patterson...
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Friday, February 1, 2019

Should Charter Schools Get More Money for Buildings? Depends...

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A recent call by the Fordham Institute and national charter school proponents has called for Ohio charter school facilities funding to be...
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Monday, January 28, 2019

What Coulda Been (And Still Could Be) ...

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This school year is the 10th since I was the Chairman of the Primary and Secondary Education Subcommittee on the House Finance and Approp...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

State Superintendent Tells New School Board Members Ohio School Funding is Constitutional. Data Say He's Wrong.

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Well this is quite a thing. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Paolo DeMaria wrote a memo to school board members Sunday that open...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

Keep Your Eye on the School Funding Ball

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As you begin hearing more about the Patterson-Cupp committee's proposals for fixing school funding -- ideas that as of now hold much p...
Monday, November 12, 2018

Brenner School Funding "Fix" Gets Courtesy Hearing

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Within the first couple months of the 2017-2018 legislative session, state Rep. Andrew Brenner, R-Powell, introduced a new Ohio school fun...
Monday, October 2, 2017

Ohio Now at Historically High Reliance on Local Taxpayers to Pay for Schools

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Twenty years ago, the Ohio Supreme Court issued the first of four rulings determining that the way Ohio paid for schools was unconstitutiona...
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Ohio Budget Process Ends with $896 million Less for Kids in School Districts than Great Recession

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The Ohio General Assembly's Conference Committee, which is charged with reconciling differences between the Ohio House of Representat...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Ohio Senate Tries to Sell Cuts as Increases

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I'm growing weary of writing this stuff, but the Ohio Senate has once again misled Ohio taxpayers by claiming increases in school fund...
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Monday, May 8, 2017

What's a Baseline: Why Most Reporting on School Funding Falls Short

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Since the Ohio House of Representatives passed its unbalanced budget about two weeks ago (an issue I'll take up in another post), I...
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Monday, June 1, 2015

School Funding: Here We Go Again

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Every time I think we've perhaps turned a school funding corner as a state, something happens that undoes all that. Or at least expands ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Ohio Senate President Faber Lays Groundwork for Flat Education Funding Next Year

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Last week, Sen. Keith Faber, R-Celina, the Ohio Senate President, said that he wanted to deregulate education, especially for high-performin...
Thursday, August 28, 2014

Kasich Record: Largest Number of Property Tax Increases. Ever.

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As part of this week's return to school for Ohio's 1.8 million schoolchildren, we at Innovation Ohio have posted what amounts to mos...