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Last Monday, members of the Ohio House and Senate finally reconciled their respective versions of the state budget, passing it with bipartisan support in both chambers. While a $1.6 billion tax cut and funding for broadband and brownfield development will make headlines, the most historic provision of this budget is likely its change to the school funding formula.
The school funding formula in Ohio is incredibly complicated. I know: I briefly worked for the legislative research group that focuses on the formula. A broad range of different factors determine how much state funding goes to each school.
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A second bill seeking to ban critical race theory in Ohio schools entered the Ohio legislature on Tuesday.
State Rep. Don Jones, R-Freeport, brought the bill to prohibit critical race theory an academic concept focusing on the effects of race on all aspects of American society, particularly as systems were created that negatively impacted communities of color along with “action civics” from the state’s K-12 curriculum.
“Students should not be asked to ‘examine their whiteness’ or ‘check their privilege, ” Jones said in a statement. “This anti-American doctrine has no place in Ohio’s schools since we passed our founding documents curriculum mandating the Declaration of Independence, Northwest Ordinance, Ohio Constitution and the U.S. Constitution be taught to all students.”