COLUMBUS (AP) — The speaker of the Ohio House has reiterated his support for his chamber’s school funding plan as part of the state’s upcoming two-year, $75 billion budget.
House leader Bob Cupp (R-Lima) is one of the architects of a measure known as the Fair School Funding Plan.
He said Thursday that the plan is important to House lawmakers, who incorporated it into their version of the budget approved in April.
He said the Legislature has a historic opportunity to do something important for quality education for all Ohio students.
The goal of that plan was a sustainable funding process lasting several years.
The GOP-majority Ohio Senate ditched that approach and introduced its own plan as part of the budget Wednesday.
House and Senate lawmakers must reconcile differences between the two versions by month’s end.