Rosenberger supports legislation to reduce schools' financial burden
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State Representative Cliff Rosenberger (R-Clarksville) recently voted in support of House Bill 30, which will repeal a number of unfunded or underfunded school mandates that have put an unnecessary strain on the local districts’ budgets.
Specifically, House Bill 30 repeals the requirement that schools must provide all-day, every-day kindergarten and also eliminates the mandate that schools reduce teacher-to-pupil ratios, both of which have received much criticism from cash-strapped school districts. It also repeals specific school district reporting and spending mandates that are associated with the “evidence-based” model.
“It is important that we do not foist unnecessary mandates on our school districts,” Representative Rosenberger said. “Unreasonable regulations negatively impact teachers in the classroom and are detrimental to the learning ability of students. We must remove the bureaucratic middleman and return control of the classrooms to the teachers.”
This legislation repeals the authority of the state superintendent of public instruction to penalize school districts that do not spend dollars precisely the way the state has mandated the dollars to be spent.
House Bill 30 passed from the Ohio House of Representatives with bipartisan support by a vote of 59-36 and will now move to the Ohio Senate for further consideration.[[In-content Ad]]
Specifically, House Bill 30 repeals the requirement that schools must provide all-day, every-day kindergarten and also eliminates the mandate that schools reduce teacher-to-pupil ratios, both of which have received much criticism from cash-strapped school districts. It also repeals specific school district reporting and spending mandates that are associated with the “evidence-based” model.
“It is important that we do not foist unnecessary mandates on our school districts,” Representative Rosenberger said. “Unreasonable regulations negatively impact teachers in the classroom and are detrimental to the learning ability of students. We must remove the bureaucratic middleman and return control of the classrooms to the teachers.”
This legislation repeals the authority of the state superintendent of public instruction to penalize school districts that do not spend dollars precisely the way the state has mandated the dollars to be spent.
House Bill 30 passed from the Ohio House of Representatives with bipartisan support by a vote of 59-36 and will now move to the Ohio Senate for further consideration.[[In-content Ad]]