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Columbus on the Record - Franklin County Schools to Lose Funding

Columbus on the Record

Even before the GOP-controlled House takes its final vote (Wednesday, March 30), labor leaders and Democrats are gearing up to repeal the bill that dramatically limits the collective bargaining rights for 360,000 public workers.

Over the next two years, Franklin County schools would lose $74 million in state funding through reduced state tax reimbursements, on top of the nearly $18 million they stand to lose through changes in basic state operating funds, according to new data released last night by the state budget office.

Statewide, schools would lose an additional $579 million in reimbursements over two years, on top of the $273 million cut in basic per-pupil funding - an $852 million drop in all.

Gov. John Kasich's state budget proposal swings the wrecking ball at the state's Local Government Fund, blowing open an unprecedented hole in a funding stream handed down to locals for generations.

Some local officials say that by doing so, the Republican governor also demolishes a 76-year-old pact between the state and local governments forged when state lawmakers first passed a sales tax in 1934.

April 1, 2011