The Ohio House of Representatives passed a $2 billion appropriations bill that will fund Ohio schools, jails, roads and bridges and community projects.
New Hampshire’s Education Trust Fund has racked up a sizable surplus recently. The fund, which pays out just over a billion dollars a year for the state’s share of public school funding, is expected to end this fiscal year with about $184 million.
epublican House budget writers are pushing for a plan to dramatically reduce the amount of money going toward the state’s Education Trust Fund, an approach that would force the fund to use up the existing surplus by spending it down over the next two years.