Abbie Sigmon

Senate Education Senate Education has continued to hear testimony for the budget bill (HB33) from various stakeholders regarding school funding, career/tech, mental health, literacy, remediation, school choice, and school security…

HB 33 The biggest news of this week is that the Budget Bill (HB 33) passed the Ohio House in a vote of 79-19. The Budget Bill now heads to…

The Ohio House Finance Committee released all 5,364 pages of HB33 (Budget Bill) and the substitute bill has been accepted by the House Committee. The full House will vote on…

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 the impending departure of Interim…

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 found here.Questions asked from the…

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 Fair School Funding Formula from…

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

SB1 – After a slew of largely opponent testimony, the Senate Education committee passed SB1 with some new amendments. The full Senate passed the bill on 3.1.23. The vote was…

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

Budget Updates – After a week of waiting, the budget bill has a number – HB33. The bill as introduced (still missing a number) can be found at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ztgtqL33N5NaHDbYpZWB20GB3DXzc5Xu/view?usp=share_link. On Thursday, the…