OhioSchools
APRIL 2013
A PUBLICATION Of The OhIO eDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Broken promises
Governor Kasich’s budget proposal
shortchanges students and schools p13
Lima teacher Rochelle Penn met with Ohio
legislators before Governor John Kasich’s
February 19 State of the State speech in Lima.
Schools can’t send students to the Neil
Armstrong Air & Space Museum 20 minutes
away, they said. So how can the Governor
cut the basic aid formula from $5,732 to
$5,000 per pupil while offering $4.3 billion
in income tax cuts—mostly to the wealthiest
Ohioans? they asked. (see story page 13)