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New School Funding Formula Shelved For Now

Rep. John Patterson and Rep. Bob Cupp
Statehouse News Bureau
Rep. John Patterson and Rep. Bob Cupp

For weeks now, Ohio lawmakers have been considering a bipartisan school funding plan from two state representatives.  They say the plan would reduce reliance on property taxes. The proposal is not funded in the proposed House budget.

House Speaker Larry Householder says he’s encouraged Republican Bob Cupp (R-Lima) and Democrat John Patterson (D-Ashtabula) to continue to work on their plan.

“I would like to see us be able to make that significant change in the funding formula this general assembly but there’s a significant amount of work that needs to be done yet. And I don’t think, certainly on the House side, that it is going to be ready for this budget. We are really going to have to get a lot of work done by the time it comes back from the Senate," Householder says.

Householder says he doesn’t know what the cost would be for that plan so it’s impossible to fund it right now.

Householder says the House has chosen to put $125 million more into the wraparound services funding requested by Gov. Mike DeWine to benefit low income kids instead.

Contact Jo Ingles at jingles@statehousenews.org.
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