The school funding formula that鈥檚 in the latest version of the two-year state budget now being considered by the Ohio Senate will likely cost more than expected. The formula passed by the House last month seeks to calculate state aid based on 60% property values and 40% income in each school district.
Senate Education Committee chair Andrew Brenner (R-Delaware) said the House version of the school funding overhaul would need an over the six-year phase in.
But he said the House used teacher and school employee salary data from 2018.
鈥淲e updated a couple of weeks ago, and the salary data is now from 2020, but that added another $454 million short," Brenner said. "So we鈥檙e closer to about $2.2, $2.3 billion short over the six-year period.鈥�
The House budget , but leaves most of the extra funding to future legislators to allocate.
It also that Gov. Mike DeWine had set aside for separate tutoring, mental health and other wellness programs for low-income students.
That's something that's bothered Senate Finance Committee Chair Matt Dolan (R-Chagrin Falls) as well.
Ohio Senators are now looking at the House budget, including a $1.8b, 6-yr school funding overhaul. On , tells he's concerned about $1.1b in "wellness dollars" Gov. Mike DeWine earmarked for low-income kids being folded into that.
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Several groups have come out , noting the almost universal agreement that the current formula doesn't work.
The overhaul in the House budget comes from , which was a reintroduction of the , named for then-Rep. Bob Cupp (R-Lima, now the House Speaker) and Rep. John Patterson (D-Jefferson), who was term-limited. That plan . But to fully consider the plan.
The Senate's version of the budget is expected to be introduced in early June.
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