Advocacy Alerts

Senate Finance Senate Finance has adopted the budget substitute bill (HB33).  Gifted funding changes amended in the House were mostly adopted in the Senate substitute bill.  Unfortunately, the Senate Finance…

Senate Workforce and Higher Education heard the first testimony on SB 104 (Revisions to College Credit Plus). Co-sponsors Cirino and Brenner are mainly seeking changes in admission requirements, application deadlines,…

Senate Education The Senate Education Committee heard from nearly 70 witnesses this week regarding HB33 (Budget Bill).  OAGC presented testimony requesting the Senate retain the transparency and accountability language as…

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…