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Governor
Kasich Communication Department
Achievement
Everywhere News Coverage
Kasich
to schools: Nobody is going to lose
money. If you’re poor, you get more. If you’re rich, you get less. If
you have
gifted or disabled students, you get more. The schools seem to like
that.
Editor
Columbus
Dispatch
Kasich’s
school-funding plan greeted with
relief
Ohio
school superintendents were relieved
yesterday when Gov. John Kasich told them his two-year school-funding
plan
would not cut their current levels of state aid. In fact, the $15.1
billion
education plan would increase state funding to schools by 6 percent in
the
coming school year and 3.2 percent the next.
“This
is not hard to figure out: If you are
poor, you’re going to get more. If you are rich, you’re going to get
less. If
you have gifted students, you’re going to get more. If you have
disabled
students, you’re going to get more,” Kasich said.
“What
everybody has to like is he (Kasich) told
us none of us are losing any money,” said Brion Deitsch, superintendent
of
Fairview Park City Schools near Cleveland. “I guarantee you if you had
taken a
poll of the people before they walked through this door, everybody
would have
said, ‘I wonder how bad we’re going to get cut. I wonder how bad we’re
going to
get hit.’
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Dayton
Daily News
Kasich's
plan gives more money to schools
Gov.
John Kasich’s school funding plan tackles
growing disparity between poor and wealthy school districts and allows
Ohio
students living in poverty to attend private schools with state
dollars, while
boosting overall state funding for public schools.
Kasich
rolled out his school funding formula
and other education policies Thursday to school superintendents
attending a
conference north of Columbus and statewide through a “virtual town hall
meeting."
Kasich
said school districts will receive at
least as much money for the next two years as they did this year.
Kasich’s
budget proposal boosts state aid by$1.2 billion over two years
including $548
million more for base funding for school districts.
About
11 percent of the funding comes from
state lottery profits and the rest from general revenue funds, which
Kasich
said is the product of an improved state economy.
“No
one’s going to lose in this proposal, and
this has happened because we’ve been good stewards,” Kasich said.
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more here:
Canton
Repository
Governor's
school spending plan puts focus on
students
By
Lisa Reicosky
CANTON
— Funding the student, not the district,
is the theme of Governor John Kasich’s education funding plan for the
next two
years.
Kasich
presented his long-anticipated plan,
“Achievement Everywhere,” to superintendents and charter school leaders
at a
Buckeye Association of School Administrators meeting Thursday.
He
said the plan is “not about operating
schools, but about educating our boys and girls.”
The
$15.1 billion, two-year education plan
would increase state aid to schools by 6 percent over the next two
years (July
1 to June 2015).
It
includes an expansion of the state’s voucher
program, which provides public money for students to attend private
schools.
Kasich
stressed that his plan will level the
playing field between the state’s richest and poorest districts.
Kasich’s
Director for 21st Century Education,
Richard Ross, said the plan is designed to drive dollars to the
classroom and
called it “an education improvement plan, not a funding plan.”
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Toledo
Blade
Kasich
school plan prompts optimism
Gov.
John Kasich’s school funding proposal
rolled out today targets more aid for poorer school districts, expands
funding
for charter schools and access to vouchers to attend private schools,
and dangles
$300 million in one-time carrots before schools to innovatively break
the
public education mold.
Basic
aid to schools would increase 6 percent
in the first year of the two-year budget and 3.2 percent in the second,
but the
Kasich administration warned that guaranteeing that none of Ohio’s 613
school
districts will get less money from one year to the next in the long
term is
unsustainable .
“We
chose to keep the guarantee in, because we
know we’re really challenging districts for improvement…” said Barbara
Matteri-Smith, assistant policy director for education. “To work with
all the
challenges we have, fiscal flexibility was also necessary.”
But
while the plan does not cut basic subsidies
to schools, neither does it provide the restorative funding sought by
Democrats
to undo the severe cuts schools suffered in the current two-year
budget. Mr.
Kasich has technically boasted that his administration increased state
basic
aid in 2012 and 2013, but schools still suffered major pain from the
simultaneous loss of one-time federal stimulus dollars during the
recession and
by the state’s continued weaning of schools off revenue from a pair of
now
defunct taxes.
In
his second budget proposal, Mr. Kasich
offers additional funding for schools to help implement a new law
prohibiting
the promotion of a third-grader who still hasn’t mastered reading and
targets
additional aid to districts with large numbers of special needs and
disabled
students and those learning English as a second language.
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more here:
WKSU.org
Gov.
Kasich says his school plan boosts
performance and poor districts
Gov.
John Kasich is proposing a school-funding overhaul he says will help
poor
districts compete more evenly while introducing changes to promote
innovation
and performance. His plan was unveiled to school superintendents and
administrators at a meeting in Columbus this afternoon.
Kasich
says his plan would boost funding for
poor districts that are lagging in property values and household
incomes, but
also offers more school choice and help for the costs of special-needs
students.
Kasich
on the school funding plan:
“We
have stripped politics out of the decision
making. In the past, people had political considerations. That is not
the way
that I approach this job nor the way I would approach the distribution
of
resources for our boys and girls. The minute you play politics is the
minute
you get lost.”
Kasich
education advisers say no schools will
see reduced funding next year under the current formula, and overall
funding
will rise. But the governor and his team hinted it won't stay that way
beyond
this budget.
Here's
an extended version of what Gov. Kasich
unveiled:
Gov.
Kasich says schools need to become more
efficient. He says government needs to become better at funding schools
in a
way that encourages efficiency. And
he
says the plan he unveiled Thursday afternoon takes politics out of the
process.
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Marion
Star
Kasich
plan to fund education released
While
waiting for further financial detail,
Marion-area school superintendents gave favorable reviews of the
school-funding
overhaul announced Thursday by Gov. John Kasich.
Kasich
unveiled a plan he said is aimed at
helping students in poor districts compete while introducing changes
meant to
reward and highlight innovation.
Marion
City Schools Superintendent James Barney
welcomed the governor’s general approach to funding issues for Ohio’s
public
schools, saying, “There’s a number of specifics that aren’t there, but
the
initial broad brush appears to be positive. It looks like he’s trying
to get
dollars to where the needs are.”
The
Republican governor’s long-awaited plan
would boost districts that are lagging behind in property values and
household
incomes. Kasich education advisers said no schools would see reduced
funding
next year under the current formula, to allow them time to adjust. A
special
fund with $300 million in additional money would be created to reward
districts
with grants for innovation and efficiency.
Ridgedale
Local Schools Superintendent Bob
Britton said, he’s “pretty optimistic” about the proposed overhaul.
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