Mar. 25, 2011, Lancaster Eagle-Gazette
BY JESSICA ALAIMO
CentralOhio.com
Most school districts could expect increases in basic state aid under Gov. John Kasich’s proposed budget, Ohio executives told school districts Thursday.
But school officials knew not to get excited, because these numbers only reveal the cheerier half of an otherwise grim picture. School districts will lose funds in other places, most likely resulting in a net loss, school and union officials say. Districts don’t know how those losses will be divided.
Barbara Shaner, associate executive director of the Ohio Association of School Business Officials, said the group cautioned its members as the numbers came out: The big picture could look a lot different.
These projections make for strange bedfellows: The Ohio Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the state, echoed the business officials association in calling the figures misleading. Union spokeswoman Michele Prater referred to the calculations as “sleight of hand” that seeks to disguise an overall drop in state funding for schools.
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