Kia Reyes Woodward, a Columbus City Schools parent, said the cuts would be unfair, especially after voters recently passed a levy.
Teachers and parents from the “All In for Ohio Kids” coalition are criticizing Gov. Mike DeWine’s budget proposal in Columbus, Ohio.
The coalition said if the budget passes, public schools in Ohio would lose about $103 million.
“The legislature has to go all in for Ohio kids and fully and fairly fund schools in this budget,” said Ali Smith with Policy Matters Ohio.
The group built a fair school funding explorer tool that can be found at
To check how much funding your district will receive in the next two years under the current funding levels or to see potential funding cuts under the governor’s budget, simply enter your district’s information on the website.
One member of the coalition, Smith, stated that any deviation from fully funding the current plan would present communities with the difficult choice of raising property taxes or inadequately funding schools, neither of which are acceptable options.
A spokesperson for DeWine’s office said that the school funding formula is “designed to provide schools with more state support when the school districts receive less local property tax revenue and less support to the districts that receive more local revenue.”
Kia Reyes Woodward, a Columbus City Schools parent, said the cuts would be unfair, especially after voters recently passed a levy.
“For the governor to wipe in and take those gains in one swoop is incomparable,” said Woodward.
She said everyone deserves the right to have a good public education.
“Education in this country is a right and not a privilege. We are making education a privilege and that’s a travesty in my opinion,” she said.
