Gadfly Bites 6/30/21—“We should have known…”
In case you missed it, the state budget bill passed out of the legislature very late in the day on Monday.
In case you missed it, the state budget bill passed out of the legislature very late in the day on Monday.
Today, the Ohio Senate and House, each with broad bipartisan support, approved the report of the budget conference committee and sent HB 110 (the biennium state budget) to Governor DeWine for his approval.
In case you missed it late in the day on Friday, House Bill 82 passed out of the General Assembly. Among other things, the bill contains a serious revamp of school and district report cards.
Fordham-provided stats are referenced in the piece on the status of a school funding revamp currently included in the state budget bill.
It is truly an unusual situation when the good folks at Gongwer use an evocative, emotional word like “bristle” in a headline. Must mean it’s budget season and some folks don’t like what they’re seeing in the tea leaves.
It’s been a busy budget season filled with heated debates over how to revise Ohio’s school-funding formula, testing and
Lots of folks worried about a decline in student enrollment last year and what it might mean for the future. Oh. Sorry.
On Wednesday, we covered some sobering data about economic segregation in Ohio’s education system, including interdistrict open enrollment.
Over the past few years, school-funding policy has been at the forefront of Ohio’s education debates.
Fordham’s Aaron Churchill is one among several of the advocates quoted in this piece applauding the school choice-friendly aspects of the Senate’s budget bill. Naturally.
Earlier this year, Governor DeWine requested that all public schools create and publish plans to address student learning loss caused by the pandemic.
A blog by Fordham’s Jessica Poiner is quoted in this piece, looking at the state budget bill’s provisions to expand computer science education.
The state budget bill remains the story of the week. In case you missed it, the Senate passed their version of the bill and the House refused to concur in the changes thereunto. Thus setting up a conference committee.
Across the nation, state lawmakers have been heeding the call for parents to have more control over their children’s education.
In case you missed it, the Senate Finance Committee voted out their version of the budget bill—amended before approval—moving it on to the full Senate for a vote.
Just two clips today, neither of which are news.
Sometimes this clips gig is fun; sometimes it lands somewhere south of that.
NOTE: On June 3, 2021, the Ohio Senate’s Finance Committee heard testimony on House Bill 110, the state budget bill.
Today, the Ohio Senate released its version of the biennial state budget (House Bill 110). As a sizeable portion of overall state expenditures, K–12 education funding has rightly been subject to much debate since Governor DeWine and the Ohio House unveiled their budget proposals earlier this year.
Our own Jessica Poiner had an op-ed published in the Enquirer last week arguing for keeping Ohio’s universal college admissions testing requirement.