Key Documents and Web Resources on School Funding and Reform
Here are key documents and web resources on House Bill 1's major education provisions and progress toward implementation of this historic legislation.
House Bill 318 - as passed by the Ohio House of Representatives. Click here for a web link to the complete bill. Click here to download the complete state budget bill in .pdf format (about 12 MB)
House Bill 1 - Click here for the Ohio Department of Education's list of major education budget provisions in pdf format.
"Ohio is on the road to a constitutional system of school funding," an essay by William Phillis, Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding. Click here to download and read the essay.
Click here for a table of the components of the Ohio Evidenced Based Model for school funding.
The state aid simulations for FY 2010 and FY2011 by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) are at the best estimates of the actual aid that school districts will receive.
District-by-district table of school funding benefits from the Ohio state budget (House Bill 1) and the federal stimulus package.
Ohio Superintendent of Instruction Deborah Delisle explains the consequences for Ohio schools if legislation is not passed to close the budget gap.
Loss of school district funds due to Video Lottery Terminal ruling by the Ohio Supreme Court.
The HB 1 Repository – the Ohio Education Association's Links to documents on Education Reform and Funding Changes.
Ohio Schools Magazine's feature -- "Fixing funding in Ohio: DeRolph vs. State of Ohio to House Bill 1"A two-part series by Mike Harden, reprinted from Ohio Schools magazine.
Part 1 - Children yet unborn when DeRolph vs. State of Ohio was filed have now completed high school, though even as they stepped forward to receive their diplomas the state remained torn by rancor and divisiveness over the struggle to finad an equitable and efficient method of funding public education in Ohio.
Part 2 - When the DeRolph cased was filed, Ohio was using the school foundation formula and excessively reliant on local property taxes for school support. The formula punished school districts with diminished tax bases, whether economically depleted urban districts or tax-poor rural ones.
The Timeline of the DeRolph vs. Ohio court case and Ohio's new school funding system, 1991-2009.