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As Speaker Batchelder and other members of the GOP-led House are getting earfuls at town hall meetings across Ohio over the Governor’s unpopular education budget, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that Kasich’s budget hurts the Cuyahoga County school districts that Kasich actually carried in the district.
As the House GOP asserts some measure of distance from Kasich’s budget by introducing hundreds of amendments, a real debate is shaping up between the House GOP and the Kasich Administration as to whether the half a billion expected “Strickland surplus” should be used to reduce Kasich’s job-killing cuts or to replenish the State’s “rainy day” fund to please Wall Street.
Full Story... →Welcome to Kasichistan, where even members of the General Assembly can’t get information about the budget they’re being asked to vote on from the government.
Frustrated by the inability or unwillingness by the Kasich Administration’s hearing witnesses to provide basic answers regarding the Administration’s school funding formula and education budget, two Democratic members of the General Assembly tried another route: ask for the information by making a public records request. Traditionally, when a Member of the General Assembly makes such a request, even if the information sought was not within the strict confines of public records, the information would [...]
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Last week, I posted about Governor Kasich’s budgetary plan to require all core subject teachers in low-scoring school districts to take licensure tests. The text of this newly created section of Ohio Revised Code reads as follows:
Sec. 3319.58
(C) Each year, the board of education of each school district in the lowest ten percentiles of performance index score shall require each of its classroom teachers teaching in a core subject area to register for and take all written examinations prescribed by the state board of education for licensure to teach that core subject area and the [...]
Conservative blog Third Base Politics celebrates an organization of “teachers” who support SB 5. Fails to mention that the organization is an out-of-state California organization that has no Ohio chapter, that refuses to disclose how many, if any, Ohio members it has, and is founded and lead by… non-teachers, and its funding base is the same rich conservative ideological institutional givers that fund anti-labor “right to work” organizations it regularly works with.
Maybe before citing an organization as representing Ohio teachers, TBP should find one Ohio teacher that belongs to it, first?
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The Columbus Dispatch reported this morning that Powell Christian School, the elementary school that Kasich’s daughters attend is closing due to declining enrollment and budgetary issues. More specifically:
Like other private and parochial schools, Worthington Christian receives some state money, which is used for tutoring and textbooks and other educational materials, Bookheimer said.
The current two-year state budget enacted during Gov. Ted Strickland’s administration cut funding to private schools. Now, Worthington Christian "may be impacted by a decrease in state money" under Kasich’s proposed budget and also faces declining enrollment, Bookheimer said.
The school [...]
Full Story... →Kasich’s budget keeps getting hits in the State media over education funding. Gone is any more consideration of Kasich’s entirely false claim that he was “boosting” state funding. But on top of that, today, Kasich released another document showing his war on teacher’s union doesn’t begin and end with SB 5.
Today, the Columbus Dispatch writes about the sucker punch that is Kasich’s tax reimbursement raids on schools. You see that small video we’ve had off the right that compares Kasich’s ads to his budget? Yeah, it’s wrong. We understated how much Kasich is cutting funding for the Columbus [...]
Full Story... →“Education, K-12 and post-secondary, of course it’s critical to our economic future. But I want to tell you, more choice, more accountability, more dollars in the classroom instead of bureaucracy will improve our schools, and we are going to have a significant reform agenda. . .”—Governor John Kasich, State of State address
Does Kasich’s budget do that?
Yesterday, knowing that the media would be focused on the latest developments on SB 5, the Kasich Administration did a massive budgetary document dump finally releasing both the statutory language of the entire budget and more accurate [...]
Full Story... →Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols in today’s Columbus Dispatch tries another whack that isn’t as mockable as the Office of Budget Management spokesman we discussed last night:
"It’s not our job to proofread what a partisan, liberal group chooses to post on its website," Nichols said.
These series of spin by the Kasich Administration when a political embarrassing budget document surfaces on the left that is reportedly the Kasich Administration’s own document is oddly familiar.
You might recall that this is precisely what they did in response to Joseph’s story in January about how Kasich was inflating the [...]
Full Story... →Earlier today, Joseph wrote about Innovation Ohio releasing Kasich Administration documents that showed the Administration has, in fact, run full simulations on how their budget will affect each school district that included the impact of Kasich’s decision to replace none of the lost stimulus funding and tax changes Kasich’s budget makes.
The Cincinnati Enquirer and other outlets has the Kasich Administration’s response to the release of this data. First, the response in full, and then the breakdown:
“It appears that it’s not accurate and if it had any origin here at one time it is now badly outdated, [...]
Full Story... →The issue of school consolidation came up in the final weeks of the campaign as Kasich as the Strickland campaign raised the issue in rural and suburban districts. Kasich was, reportedly, incensed at the notion that he supported school district consolidation, not because the allegation was untrue, but because Kasich’s campaign knew that the idea was politically unpopular in rural and suburban areas that were key to Kasich’s victory.
So John Kasich threw a hissy. In fact, in order to try to bury any notion that Kasich was tied to school consolidation policies, Kasich continued to throw a hissy even [...]
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You call this progress? The 1st 100 days of the 129th Ohio General Assembly
The Ohio House Republicans ran in 2010 on job creation. They even had an entire platform of job-related bills they said they’d pass. As they self-congratulate themselves over their first 100 days in power, why is that 11 of the fifteen bills they highlight passing have nothing to do with jobs? And why did they spend more time on abortion than the budget or job creation?
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