Ohio House budget would cut all elected members of the State Board of Education, limit board to five

The good, bad, and ugly in the Ohio House education plan

Last week, House lawmakers passed their version of Ohio’s biennial budget. As usual, the measure contains billions of dollars in appropriations and nearly as many policy changes. In K–12 education, the chamber’s headline proposal dealt with the school funding formula—for our take on that issue, see Fordham’s analysis and testimony—but the House budget also touches on many other areas of education policy. Here’s our analysis of seven key provisio…

Ohio House budget would cut all elected members of the State Board of Education, limit board to five

The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.A provision in the version of the two-year state budget passed by Ohio House Republicans would eliminate elected members from the State Board of Education. This comes after the last budget stripped the board of most of its power.The budget passed by the House last week would reduce the board membership …