Advocacy Alerts

The Ohio House and Senate were on Spring Break this week.  The State Board of Education met on April 10th and 11th where they discussed

OAGC shared testimony for HB33 (Budget) in front of the House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education.  A link to the testimony can be

House Finance Subcommittee on Primary and Secondary Education:This committee met three times this week to discuss HB33 (budget bill). Tuesday’s meeting included a presentation of the

House Primary and Secondary EducationThis hearing lasted well over two hours – most of which was taken up by proponent testimony for HB 12. This

SB1 – After a slew of largely opponent testimony, the Senate Education committee passed SB1 with some new amendments. The full Senate passed the bill

SB1 – The Senate Education Committee took opponent and interested party testimony on SB1 – the education reform bill which take control of ODE from the

Budget Updates – After a week of waiting, the budget bill has a number – HB33. The bill as introduced (still missing a number) can be

A draft of the budget bill was released today. There has still been no number assigned to it. Once it is officially introduced, OAGC will

Blue Book Unveiled – As is tradition, Governor DeWine introduced many of his budget priorities in last week’s state of the state speech. For education, that

New ODE Gifted Studies/Guidance Available – As part of SB310 in 2020, ODE was required to do a study on possible incentives for rural gifted

Speaker Surprise – In a surprising move, the Ohio House voted Rep. Jason Stephens (R-Kitts Hill) to be the next Speaker of the Ohio House. Scott Oelslager

To be honest, I had already written the first paragraph of this update yesterday – predicting that the Ohio House would indeed go along with