shows that state funding for K-12 education hasn鈥檛 bridged the gap between rich and poor districts, and hasn't kept pace with inflation.
It鈥檚 the first comprehensive look at state and local aid for schools since a landmark Ohio Supreme Court ruling declaring the property tax based funding system unconstitutional.
The report looked at state and local funding for Ohio鈥檚 more than 600 school districts over the last twenty years. Though the DeRolph ruling said the state must find a more equitable way to fund schools, researcher Howard Fleeter says overall distribution of state and local money hasn鈥檛 changed much.
鈥淭he percentage increase that the low-wealth districts had over this 20 years is 3.8% more than the high wealth places," Fleeter said.
That鈥檚 $107 more per pupil in the poorest districts 鈥� where nearly 80 percent of kids are economically disadvantaged.
And Fleeter says three quarters of the increase in state money came in the first ten years after DeRolph, while local revenues have been going up in the second decade.
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