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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Republican Ohio lawmaker says he thinks there’s increasing support for using a tiered system to cut state school funding if needed, instead of using an even cut for all districts.

The Columbus Dispatch reports school districts are bracing for cuts and waiting to see how the state will handle an estimated $8 billion shortfall in the 2012-13 budget. New Gov. John Kasich is expected to unveil his two-year state spending plan in March.

State Rep. John Carey Jr. of Wellston is vice chairman of the House Finance Committee and says districts’ poverty levels could be a factor that lawmakers consider in making any cuts.

An across-the-board cut could hit poor districts harder because they rely more on state funding and don’t have the local revenue to make up for it.

To bad they will not follow how the court decided long ago on funding. This will effect all the schools in our area. This is not just a political move but effects the education for now and the future.

Farmer, the courts had it easy, IWA, institution without accountability! lol

Easy to say its unConstitutional, but what to change is the hard part!

Strickland changed the way public schools are funded. We are now funded through the EBM model. This takes into account everything that it takes to educate students and is used in other states. This will eventually, over 10 years, move more state money to poorer school districts that have high free/reduced lunch rates. This moves the primary responsibility of funding schools off the local property taxpayer and onto the state government. The local taxpayer still has to have a levy passed for at least 20 mills but whatever that money does not provide for the education of students, the state picks up the difference.