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…
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…