Mike Dovilla's Report Card

HB 96

"The Ohio House passed the two-year operating budget proposed by Republicans in a mostly party line vote. The budget, totaling $61 billion in state-only funds, includes some controversial changes in school funding that are likely to be the focus of further debate as the budget heads to the Senate."

"Ohio Education Association President Scott DiMauro said the carryover plan is "punitive" to school districts that have been fiscally responsible with planning how to use of tax dollars.

"The net impact is going to be a massive cut to many of those districts," DiMauro said. "It's also extremely inequitable, because you're going to see that if someone happens to be in a district with a carryover balance that's above this arbitrary threshold, you going see a significant change in their property taxes, but somebody else who is in a district just under that threshold will get zero relief."

"Budgets are about choices. It’s about which Ohioans we are choosing to invest in, and who are we choosing to ignore or underfund, and this budget was very clear ... It chose the wealthiest, highest earning Ohioans,” House Minority Leader Dani Isaacsohn (D-Cincinnati) said Wednesday."

"HB 96 will overhaul K-12 public school funding, partly by dictating the amount of collected property taxes districts can hold onto as carryover balances before property owners would be refunded. The House and the Senate met halfway at 40%."

"The budget increases money put toward private school vouchers, including by establishing an educational savings account."

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