This week, Sens. Peggy Lehner (R-Kettering) and Vernon Sykes (D-Akron) will release the Senate companion bill to House Bill (HB) 305, which creates a new school-funding formula and is sponsored by House Speaker Robert R. Cupp (R-Lima) and Rep. John Patterson (D-Jefferson). The Senate bill is expected to contain a number of modifications to the original version of HB 305.
Please mark your calendars with the following events for this Friday, November 6, 2020:
- 11:00 a.m. – Virtual press conference. Members can watch live or access a recorded copy of the press conference and hearings at www.ohiochannel.org.
- 12:00 p.m. – Release of the district-by-district simulations and bill language. Districts will receive the simulations and bill language from OASBO, BASA, and OSBA via e-mail.
- 1:00 p.m. – Please join a statewide Zoom webinar hosted by OASBO, BASA, and OSBA. Members of the Cupp-Patterson Workgroup will review simulation results, answer questions, and discuss the next steps. The webinar will be limited to 500 participants with a recording available immediately following the webinar for those who are not able to participate. Please click here to register for the webinar. If the webinar becomes full, there will be overflow viewing via livestream to the OASBO YouTube Channel.
Hearings in both the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate are expected to be scheduled for the next two weeks. We will keep members posted as those details become available.
Please contact us with any questions.
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