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As required by law, Governor DeWine released his budget blue print, yesterday. The so-called budget blue book outlines generally the governor’s proposed budget for FY2022-2023. The governor has essentially flat-funded…

State Board of Education - While the focus this week was mostly on other national and state news, there is some education news of interest in Ohio. The State Board of…

HB305 – On a vote of 84 – 8 the Ohio House passed the HB305, the Cupp-Patterson school funding bill. This represents a big leap for the bill, but it…

HB305/SB376 - On Friday, several House and Senate members, along with a consultant to the Ohio Fair School Funding Plan group, held a press conference. The purpose was to introduce a…

New Approved List of Assessments – ODE has released a new list of approved assessments including those for gifted assessment. They can be viewed at www.oagc.com/advocacyupdates.asp under the “Gifted Assessment Issues.”  Report Card…

As we head into the school year, there are a few advocacy items to report:  SB358 - Continued and Expanded K-12 Education Waivers Due to COVID-19 - The Senate Education Committee…

ODE Gifted Guidance – ODE released gifted guidance for the reset and restart last week along with guidance on other gifted issues such as gifted identification. To view these documents, please…

New Speaker - Because Ohio doesn’t have enough drama to contend with, the Ohio House shook things a bit more yesterday by voting in a new speaker, Bob Cupp. Speaker Cupp,…

ODE ESSA Assessment Waiver Input – ODE has put out a request for public comment on a revision to the federal middle school testing wavier.  The revisions are necessary because the Ohio…

COVID-19 Education Budget Cuts – The Ohio Budget and Management (OBM) office released a document last week detailing the education budget cuts district by district. As expected, OBM made deeper cuts…