{"id":142272,"date":"2021-04-22T23:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=142272"},"modified":"2021-04-22T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T04:15:08","slug":"budget-bill-includes-school-funding-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/04\/22\/budget-bill-includes-school-funding-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget bill includes school funding reform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Staff and submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) announced the Ohio House has approved House Bill 110, the state\u2019s two-year operating budget that creates a new school funding plan and provides tax relief to Ohioans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Fair School Funding Plan is a historic initiative that is the result of collaboration among educators and policymakers for the past three years. The plan begins a six-year phase-in, starting with the 2021-2022 school year and is designed to ensure a hold harmless period during the transition to the new formula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud to support a fix to Ohio\u2019s school funding formula,\u201d said Riedel. \u201cThis new model is predictable, sustainable, and transparent while ensuring fairness to all of Ohio\u2019s schools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The budget includes a two percent across the board personal income tax cut, which will reduce taxes and withholding amounts by approximately $380 million over the biennium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAlthough I would have preferred providing more tax relief in this budget, I\u2019m grateful the House took a step forward in alleviating the tax burden on hardworking Ohioans,\u201d added Riedel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other measures to support job retention and creation, workforce training, and economic development efforts in Ohio include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Requiring state agencies to give a preference to American and Ohio products through a competitive bidding process<\/li><li>Creating a 13-member joint legislative committee to study career pathways and workforce training<\/li><li>Providing $18 million to the Rural Industrial Park Loan Program to support rural job creation efforts<\/li><li>Providing $500,000 in grants to the Main Street Job Recovery Program&nbsp;<\/li><li>Establishing the Commercial Truck Drive Student Aid Program to address the national driver shortage&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vacating violations of orders by businesses for COVID-19<\/li><li>Appropriating $155 million for COVID-19 relief grants to support industries negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>H.B. 110 now heads to the Senate for consideration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff and submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; State Representative Craig S. Riedel (R-Defiance) announced the Ohio House has approved House Bill 110, the state\u2019s two-year operating budget that creates a new school funding plan and provides tax relief to Ohioans.&nbsp; The Fair School Funding Plan is a historic initiative that is the result of collaboration among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 04:00:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}