The following summary includes education-related proposals from the 2013 state of the state addresses. To assure that this information reaches you in a timely manner, minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) or format. To view the documents, click on the blue triangle next to the state.
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| Governor John R. Kasich's State of the State Address
PROPOSALS
Choice/P-3 Kindergarten
-- Expand school choice for kindergartners who live in poverty.
Finance
-- Provides a total of $1.2 billion in new funds over the next two years. Ohio will be providing more in state aid to its K-12 system than they received at the height of the one-time federal stimulus money in 2011.
-- Implement the school funding plan. Ohio's poorest and urban districts will get a bigger share of overall school funding than the wealthiest districts. They also get more per pupil before funding guarantees are factored in. Additionally, the poorest schools in Ohio receive $1.1 billion while the wealthiest receive less than half of that. The very poorest district will receive $7,500 per pupil-- $7,500 per pupil in the very poorest district – and the wealthiest will receive $110. The plan applies equally to all districts based on their property tax wealth and residents' income, as well as the individual characteristics of the students they serve.
Vocational Education
-- Give a a 16 percent increase to vocational education.
-- Beef up the academics in those vocational schools
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Accountability - Reporting Results
-- Created the A through F Report Card, and also a building-by-building comparison.
Choice
-- Expanded school choice for parents with children in failing schools.
Postsecondary - Performance Funding
-- 50 percent of the money 4-yr universities receive from the state to run operations will to them upon a student's graduation, not on enrollment.
Reimburse community colleges when students complete a courses.
Reading/Literacy
-- Enacted Third Grade Reading Guarantee.
Full Text: http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Portals/0/2013%20State%20of%20the%20State%20Transcript.pdf
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