Budgetary discussions on education began in the OHIO General Assembly, along with the reconstruction of the home education committee, which is preparing to carefully look at regulation and state financing, because it establishes legislative priorities on this subject.
The representative of the state Sarah Fowler Arthur, R-Ashtabula, is the fresh chairman of the committee who has several former teachers in his ranks. A former member of the OHIO State Education Council and a supporter of the Home School focused on “deprived of civil rights” and eliminating what he considers to be excessive regulation in the state education system, explaining what he is hoping to see in the Committee in the next two years.
“Over the past two or three decades, I think that the Ohio education system has been burdened with bureaucracy and bureaucracy, and often those who came in the form of well -intentional politicians, regulations, regulations, unintentionally stealing the joy of learning from many people of students and teachers Ohio,” said Fowler Arthur at the committee’s meeting last week.
Representative of the Member State of the Committee Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, also raised the saturation of roles, especially for teachers in the state system, saying that shows, parents’ reporting, health intervention plans and school security plans, among many other roles, given teachers through legal provisions and legal provisions Recipes, they gave teachers a full plate.
“We must remember that we have created all this additional work for teachers and again, these are not bad things, these are good things, but we must alleviate some of our expectations and all regulations that we think about their list”, Bird “, Bird. He told the committee.
Fowler Arthur also expressed the hope that the Committee “will look at potential flexibility, which we can expand to our local schools and circles” and quoted Matt Huffman of Ohio House, saying: “Our true political priorities are implemented by foreign through the budget and this budget and this, What the legislator together decides to finance. “
Governor Mike Dewine released his own SUPPORTS OF THE EXPERIENCE BUDGET At the beginning of last week, which Recommendations included For $ 12.4 billion in state financing for schools in 2026 together with $ 12.6 billion in a tax year 2027.
It includes the implementation of the last two years of the financing model for public schools known as the Fair School Funding Plan, which is to focus on the costs of child education in individual districts, and not on general financing, regardless of the nuances of various needs of the school district.
But whether it is in the legislative budget is in the air, because some in the Republican superiority expressed skepticism over continuing the plan.
Republicans in the legislators stood behind the state support of the private school coupons system. The Dewine budget supports universal access to the coupon program, as well as the recommendation of financing the model of financing public schools.
Supporters of public schools praised Deweine’s incorporation of the Fair School financing plan in the executive proposal, but also examined the educational budget due to the lack of inflation in the model of financing of public schools and the plan to “reduce” the financing guarantee in some districts in some districts.
An educational coalition supporting children in Ohio Kids said that Dwine’s proposal, based on education costs in 2022, “means that the state finances public schools at a lower level than in 1997, when the Supreme Court (Ohio) announced the school system financing the unconstitutional financing system. “
“As a parent, I can’t base my budget on foods on 2022 prices, so like the budget of our legislators for our school districts using the costs of 2022” – asked Jason Marshall, parent of the local school district of Pickerington and “Parent Leader” for everyone in a statement for children from Ohio. “As a result, it will be that school districts like mine will have less dollars than you to cooperate and will be forced to ask voters to raise real estate taxes-during real estate valuations.
In discussions on the executive budget at the House financial committee last week, the Ohio Education Department and the Director Direm’s labor director said that Dewin’s recommendations are a good starting point, but he and the department “Find that there are some elements of the financing formula that could stay Corrected ”, including dealing with a fleeting guarantee of transitional assistance, the provision of financing state education, which ensures that the level of financing in any district will not fall below the financing base from the previous year.
Dewine’s executive budget is aimed at reducing this warranty by 5% in each of the next two years, to 90% to 2027.
During the home education committee, Fowler Arthur also mentioned uncertainty at federal level when it comes to the effectiveness and future existence of the US Education Department. But she took a positive tone when it comes to potential changes, including those that could be made by an organization created as part of the executive order of Trump and the leader of SpaceX Elona Muska, led by Tesla and Leader.
“The Department of Government Efficiency is looking at the federal government policy and I think that we all expect at least a certain level of change in the federal educational scene K-12,” said Fowler Arthur. “And yes, I hope it will be the right time for Ohio to do the same.”
Fowler Arthur said that she was planning to convene a home education committee to Easter every week. The Committee will see the educational provisions of the budget as part of their activities, among the negotiations by the Chamber to develop their own budget document. The Senate will also create a document and both will have to be reconciled with the governor’s recommendations to create one unified budget ready for the governor’s signature by July 1.
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