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Ohio State Budget
The state budget has big impacts across our state for our schools, our healthcare, our wallets, and our quality of life. Innovation Ohio follows this process closely and helps Ohioans understand how different aspects will affect them and what they can do about it. Here is everything you need to know about Ohio’s biennial state budget.
Ohio’s Budget – Exploding Vouchers, Lax Charter School Oversight
How Ohio's State Budget Impacts Women and Working Families
Analysis & Updates
Innovation Ohio Urges Gov. DeWine to Veto Dangerous Budget Items
June 29, 2021
Newsletter
At The Statehouse: Lawmakers Look To Grant Business Immunity
May 19, 2020
Commentary
Ohio’s School Voucher Explosion and 5 Potential Solutions
January 16, 2020
Press Release
Innovation Ohio’s New Report Finds Exploding Voucher Payments, Return to Lax Oversight of Charters in Ohio Budget
September 25, 2019
Report
Ohio’s State Budget Bill – Exploding Vouchers, Lax Charter School Oversight
September 23, 2019
Analysis
How the Latest State Budget Impacts Ohio’s Women and Working Families
September 17, 2019
Statement
Innovation Ohio Statement on Charter School Provisions in Operating Budget
July 17, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: Clash of the Titans
July 17, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: Gone Fishin’
July 9, 2019
Statement
Innovation Ohio Statement on GOP Budget Failure
June 30, 2019
Update
Senate To Vote On State Budget Today
June 20, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: House Budget Plan Includes Big Tax Changes
May 8, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: House to Adopt Budget Amendments, Move Abortion and Gun Bills
April 30, 2019
Analysis
10 Things Ohio’s Budget Needs to Get Right for College Students
April 19, 2019
Newsletter
Lawmakers Work on Budget and Nuclear Power During First Week of Spring Break
April 16, 2019
Update
Ohio House Launches Assault on Abortion Rights, Budget Hearings Continue
April 8, 2019
Analysis
New Proposal Adds $718M For Ohio School Districts
April 1, 2019
Update
Gas Tax Crunch Time and A School Funding Plan
March 26, 2019
Analysis
What’s in DeWine’s K-12 Budget?
March 21, 2019
Update
Gongwer: House Poised To Begin Budget Hearings As Reactions To Spending Plan Continue
March 20, 2019
Commentary
Governor DeWine Outlines His First State Operating Budget
March 19, 2019
Statement
Innovation Ohio Response to Gov. DeWine’s Budget
March 15, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: First Look At Ohio’s Two Year Budget
March 11, 2019
Newsletter
Statehouse Preview: It’s Theme Week At The Statehouse
February 26, 2019
Update
At The Statehouse: Bills, Bills, Bills.
February 19, 2019
Commentary
Points to Consider In the Gas Tax Debate
February 14, 2019
School Funding Comparison: District by District Budget Impacts
July 31, 2017
The Budget Vetoes: Where We Stand Now
July 11, 2017
Lawmakers May Vote to Override Kasich Medicaid Veto
July 3, 2017
Medicaid cuts and tax breaks? Ohio budget mirrors Congressional effort.
June 27, 2017
Statehouse Preview – Week of June 19
June 20, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of June 12
June 12, 2017
How to Talk About the House Budget
May 18, 2017
IO on the Budget: School District Funding in House Budget Proposal
May 17, 2017
Statehouse Preview – Week of May 8
May 9, 2017
House Passes Fake Budget Full Of Unfunded Promises
May 2, 2017
Statehouse Preview – Week of May 1
May 1, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of March 27
March 29, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of March 20
March 20, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of March 13
March 13, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of February 27
February 27, 2017
Statehouse Preview: Week of Feb. 20
February 20, 2017
Budget Continues Trend Toward Regressive Tax System, Asks Poorest to Pay More
February 15, 2017
The Week Ahead at the Ohio Statehouse: Feb. 13, 2017
February 13, 2017
Budget Ignores Looming Threat of Obamacare Repeal
February 7, 2017
Five Questions About Kasich’s School Funding Proposal
February 6, 2017
Messaging Guide: How to Talk About the Kasich Budget
February 3, 2017
Kasich Budget Reveals Misplaced Priorities
February 3, 2017
IO on the Budget: About that $200 Million for Schools…
February 2, 2017
Will Kasich’s budget continue to undermine his “Ohio Miracle”?
January 30, 2017
IO on the Budget: Ohio Shifts Tax Burden From Rich to Poor
January 27, 2017
IO on the Budget: Education Funding Preview
January 26, 2017
IO On the Budget: Ohio’s Cities and Local Communities
January 25, 2017
Ohio Cities Caught in Difficult Climate Look to Their Citizens for Support
March 11, 2016
In Final Weeks, Ohio Lawmakers Rush to Pass Laws Impacting Women
June 23, 2015
GOP using the budget to help campaign contributors?
June 17, 2015
Ohio may be first state to deny pregnant women healthcare
May 27, 2015
Budget Update: Chipping Away
April 29, 2015
Budget Briefing: Proposed House Changes
April 20, 2015
How the 2016-17 budget impacts schools, communities, and middle-class families
March 20, 2015
Budget Briefing: Local Impacts
March 13, 2015
Budget Briefing: Proposals Impacting Women
February 11, 2015
Budget Briefing: Funding Impacts of Charter Schools
February 9, 2015
Budget Briefing: K-12 Education Highlights
February 6, 2015
Ohio Tax Code Becoming More Regressive
February 4, 2015
Innovation Ohio Budget Briefing
February 3, 2015
More tax shifting that favors those at the very top?
February 1, 2015
Kasich’s Contradiction
January 26, 2015
State of the State’s Education Funding on Display in Medina
January 30, 2014
IO Op-Ed: Tired of tax reform that doesn’t help?
September 12, 2013
Dropout Recovery charter schools exempt from state report card
August 27, 2013
Ohio’s mostly failing charter schools continue to grow
August 22, 2013
Effects of Kasich property tax increase already being felt
July 25, 2013
Newark Advocate takes GOP to task for local budget cuts
July 24, 2013
New school funding formula hurts poor, rural districts
July 17, 2013
Kasich endorses school levy his budget made more expensive
July 16, 2013
Kasich Budget Leads to August Ballot Levies
July 11, 2013
Policy makers continue to make tax code in Ohio more regressive
July 3, 2013
Final analysis of four-year change in school funding, by district
July 1, 2013
ABJ: Worst Charters Get Biggest Funding Boost in Budget
July 1, 2013
Kasich Signs Budget into Law, Does Not Veto Abortion Provisions
July 1, 2013
Republican Budget Rhetoric vs Reality
June 28, 2013
Final budget deal leaves 3 in 4 Ohio school districts with less
June 27, 2013
Stand with Women in Ohio
June 26, 2013
Ohio Budget imposes new abortion restrictions, redefines basic biology
June 26, 2013
Legislators Set to Benefit from Business Tax Cut
June 25, 2013
GOP Budgets Help Private & Charter Schools at the Expense of Public Schools
June 24, 2013
Homeowners, small businesses and low-income Ohioans to fund new GOP tax plan
June 20, 2013
Senate budget cuts schools by $533 million, compared to four years ago
June 18, 2013
Closing of Abortion Clinic Foreshadowing Budget Impact
June 11, 2013
Pay Raises for Kasich Appointees?
June 10, 2013
Ohio anti-woman budget attracting national attention
June 7, 2013
Senate claims of increasing school funding ring hollow
June 6, 2013
Ohio Senate Education Plan Falls Short
May 31, 2013
Senate budget changes include misguided business tax cut proposal
May 29, 2013
Women’s Issue to Watch For
May 28, 2013
What happens next with measure to limit student voting?
May 21, 2013
Most Public Safety Levies Pass, Many Replacing Kasich Budget Cuts
May 8, 2013
Kasich Cuts put Public Safety on Ohio Ballots Today
May 7, 2013
Universities ask Senate to Kill Student Voting Amendment
April 30, 2013
Student Voting Amendment Could Cost Ohio Universities $272 Million
April 29, 2013
Kasich cuts mean $1.3 billion in “new money” requests for schools
April 25, 2013
Study: Tax Cut Proposal Benefits Wealthy Ohioans at Expense of Local Taxpayers
April 22, 2013
House to vote on rich vs. the rest budget
April 18, 2013
House makes changes to education policy in budget amendments
April 16, 2013
Ohio Republicans propose restrictions on sex ed that promotes “gateway activity”
April 16, 2013
House Budget Would Cut 127 School Districts
April 16, 2013
House Budget Provides Less Money for Schools than Kasich Plan
April 11, 2013
For the fourth time in two years, Ohio Republicans attempt to defund Planned Parenthood
April 11, 2013
House Budget Changes, in a Nutshell
April 10, 2013
House Budget Changes Represent a Huge Win for Big Oil
April 10, 2013
Three things to watch as House Republicans put their stamp on the state budget
April 5, 2013
Baffling new video shows Kasich confused about impact of his budget
March 28, 2013
Why poor districts dislike the Kasich school plan
March 22, 2013
Top school districts, ranked by property tax needed to replace Kasich cuts
March 21, 2013
Consolidated four-year school funding spreadsheets
March 20, 2013
Analysis: Challenges Presented by Proposed Services Tax
March 19, 2013
Senate to Kasich: let’s keep our Turnpike promises
March 14, 2013
State budget limits local authority, revenue options with sales tax changes
March 14, 2013
72 services taxed under Kasich budget – how they stack up
March 12, 2013
Omen for Ohio? Michigan’s sales tax on service repealed 17 hours after taking effect.
March 11, 2013
Charter schools call Kasich school funding insufficient
March 7, 2013
Florida’s failed experiment with sales tax expansion
March 7, 2013
Flashback: Governor Taft tried expanding the sales tax in 2003
March 6, 2013
IO Budget Analysis: Kasich Sales Tax Plan
March 5, 2013
Organizations offer conditional support for sales tax proposal
March 5, 2013
Budget would charge Ohio consumers for industrial energy discounts
March 2, 2013
Policy to help communities deal with impacts of drilling falls short
February 28, 2013
Lawmakers reject efforts to put Kasich Turnpike promises in law
February 28, 2013
Kasich advisers can’t explain cuts to poor school districts
February 27, 2013
House members offer amendments to Turnpike plan
February 27, 2013
Study suggests income tax cuts are a poor tool to spur job growth
February 26, 2013
Commentary: Kasich’s Tax Cut Is No Job Creator
February 25, 2013
Oil and Gas policy shifts in Kasich budget benefit industry
February 25, 2013
Recent history shows state efforts to tax services typically fail
February 25, 2013
House to act on Kasich Turnpike plan
February 24, 2013
Poll: Ohioans Reject Kasich Budget Proposals
February 15, 2013
Kasich’s oil and gas tax proposal leaves over $1 billion on the table
February 13, 2013
State budget includes massive shift from income to sales taxes
February 12, 2013
Report: Kasich Tax Proposals Will Overwhelmingly Favor Wealthy Ohioans
February 7, 2013
Kasich School Funding Plan Falls Short for Property Poor Districts
February 7, 2013
Kasich Administration’s Severance Tax Proposal is Inadequate and a Gift to Big Oil
February 7, 2013
Promises Made, Not All Kept as Kasich Turnpike Plan Moves Into Legislature
February 7, 2013
Who is really served by latest Kasich budget?
February 6, 2013
Budget Preview
February 4, 2013
Buckle up, Ohio’s budget season starts next Monday.
January 31, 2013
Republican governors pushing radical tax reforms that could be at Ohio’s doorstep soon
January 30, 2013
News Release: Kasich Budget Cuts = $1 Billion in School Levies
January 29, 2013
Kasich cuts to local govs also spur levies this fall
October 22, 2012
Poll: Ohioans want oil & gas revenue to restore budget cuts
September 20, 2012
Map of Budget Cuts by County
January 12, 2012
Local Communities’ Public Safety impacted by ‘Jobs Budget’
August 30, 2011
More fallout from the “Jobs Budget”
August 18, 2011
“Jobs Budget” to cost Ohio more jobs
August 5, 2011
“It’s either public safety cuts or 639 others.”
August 2, 2011
State prison system announces largest mass layoff of 2011
July 26, 2011
Ohio’s Unemployment Increases: Kasich’s ‘Jobs Budget’ Killing Jobs
July 22, 2011
State Budget Recap
July 12, 2011
Kasich’s “Jobs Budget” continues to cost people their jobs.
July 12, 2011
What to Watch for in Conference
June 20, 2011
Innovation Ohio Says Budget Shortfall is $5 billion, not $8 billion
June 7, 2011
Innovation Ohio’s “Taxpayer Rip-Off of the Week” Award: Big Oil Giveaway
May 5, 2011
Innovation Ohio Calls for Audit of Worker’s Compensation Council
April 26, 2011
Innovation Ohio Responds to Watchmann: Asks Auditor to Look into Workers’ Comp Council
April 21, 2011
The Workers’ Compensation Council: Boondoggle Supreme
April 20, 2011
Taxpayer Rip-Off of the Week Award: The Kasich Budget’s “Secret Six”
April 12, 2011
Kasich Budget Could Destroy Over 51,000 Jobs
April 7, 2011
Direct Job Loss from Cuts in the Kasich ‘Jobs Budget’
April 7, 2011
Unanswered Questions: Liquor Privatization
April 5, 2011
Innovation Ohio’s Taxpayer Rip-Off of the Week Award
April 4, 2011
Consolidated school funding spreadsheet [updated with House and Senate amendments]
March 31, 2011
Innovation Ohio Posts “One Stop Shop” for School Funding Info
March 31, 2011
Analysis: Kasich Budget Transfers $567 Million More For Public Schools to Private and Failing Charter Schools
March 22, 2011
News Release: Kasich Declares War on Public Schools
March 22, 2011
News Coverage
NBC4
The Spectrum: Brown stumps for Biden’s infrastructure plan
June 6, 2021
Ohio Capital Journal
Unions, DeRolph case group condemn ‘backpack’ school funding
May 7, 2021
The Alliance Review
Vouchers, guns, sentencing reform top on Ohio lawmakers’ agenda
January 19, 2020
Ohio Capital Journal
Policy areas to watch in 2020
January 2, 2020
Cleveland.com
See if you really will get a tax cut from the state legislature this year; many Ohioans will pay more
July 22, 2019
Cleveland.com
Health care price transparency a sticking point in Ohio budget negotiations
June 24, 2019