Ohio Releases School District Allotments Under Kasich Budget

The state budget office has released preliminary district-level spending figures resulting from Ohio Gov. John Kasich's hanges to the school funding formula. The $72.3 billion, two-year operating budget that Kasich released Monday calls for a $700 million increase in foundation funding to schools. However, more than half of public school districts are getting less money from the state under the plan due to funding formula changes intended to better reflect a district's capacity to raise revenue. The changes result in the lowest wealth districts tending to see increases and high wealth districts tending to see cuts, although that pattern doesn't apply in every case. According to the Ohio Department of Education, 287 school districts get funding increases in the budget and 323 see funding reduced.