Girls will soon be able to access period products for free in Ohio school bathrooms.

Two new housing tax credit programs are launching as Ohio grapples with affordable housing.

Mandatory retention will no longer be required under Ohio’s Third Grade Reading Guarantee.

Ohio students will learn how to read using the science of reading.

New “intellectual diversity” centers will be created at Ohio State University, the University of Toledo, Miami University, Cleveland State University and the University of Cincinnati.

Following the recent signing of the state operating budget by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, various organizations have shared their support for the Social Media Parental Notification Act, which was included in the budget and championed by Lt. Governor Jon Husted.

Earlier this week, Gov. Mike DeWine signed an operating budget covering the next two years. The budget is projected at $86 billion for fiscal year 2024 and $105 billion for fiscal year 2025.

On Wednesday afternoon, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine and Lt. Governor Jon Husted discussed a number of priority items in the new Fiscal Year 2024-25 operating budget that will support Ohio's workforce, children and communities.

Kim Eckhart, Director of the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio, has issued the following statement in response to Ohio’s budget.

With Gov. Mike DeWine spending the day before a holiday poring over a 1,200-page document debating line-item vetoes, he had a lot of input from advocacy groups as to the final education budget.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement calling on legislators to keep working on the full biennial budget versus a continuing interim budget.

The Ohio House put language in the state budget granting sexual assault survivors the “right to know” what’s happening with their rape kit and developments in their case. The state Senate pulled that provision out. Not because they oppose the idea, but because they contend it should advance as a standalone bill. The state has taken numerous steps to track kits already, they add.

In a positive turn of events, the Ohio Senate’s version of the two-year operating budget restores a new affordable housing tax credit program that was originally nowhere to be seen in the Senate’s proposed budget.

Angry. Frustrated. Disappointed. Disturbed. Those were the words various advocates used to describe the Ohio Senate’s version of the budget, which was released last week.

One of Ohio’s biggest teachers unions is asking the Auditor of State to look into charter school funding allegedly used for “anti-union tactics.”