Advocacy Alerts

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…

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 provide a link.  We are…

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 means more funding heading toward…

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 services expansion. That study was…

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 was elected Speaker Pro Tempore.  It…

To be honest, I had already written the first paragraph of this update yesterday – predicting that the Ohio House would indeed go along with SB178. But weird things happen…