Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Board member urges district work session to craft career-tech funding story ahead of state budget
Summary
Board member Jamie Schatzman urged the board to convene a work session before mid-April to consolidate the district's five-year forecast, facility plans and career-technical priorities and to present a clear case to state legislators during the biennial budget process.
In a legislative update at the March 10 meeting, board member Jamie Schatzman urged the Willoughby-Eastlake board to prepare a focused work session to present the district's funding needs — particularly for career-technical education — to state lawmakers before key budget deadlines in April.
Schatzman explained the two primary inputs to Ohio’s fair school funding formula: the state’s measure of a district’s relative wealth and the cost inputs that estimate how much it costs to educate a student. She said the cost inputs used in the current formula date to 2022 while…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
