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Tangible steps taken toward fulfilling education campaign pledge: PolitiFact Ohio
Friday, June 29, 2012
By Aaron Marshall 

Promise: Scrap former Gov. Ted Strickland’s evidence-based school-funding model -- Gov. John Kasich 

Regardless of whether you agree with him, Gov. John Kasich doesn’t like to beat around the bush. 

The Republican governor wasn’t exactly mincing his words back on the campaign trail in 2010 when he pledged to completely undo the school-funding plan of Democratic Governor Ted Strickland. 

Kasich told The Cincinnati Enquirer that if he was elected governor, Strickland’s evidence-based funding model would be “gone.” 

The biggest step towards nuking Strickland’s “evidence-based” school-funding system was taken in Kasich’s first budget, which passed in summer 2011. That budget wiped out the formula developed by the Strickland administration. A “bridge” formula was put in its place. 

The bridge formula was basically a placeholder formula designed to give school districts about the same proportion of a cut in state funding when looked at relative to the total amount of money they have for education including local dollars. The idea was to put in place a bridge until Team Kasich could devise its own school-funding formula. 

In recent weeks, the Kasich administration had taken steps further down the path away from Strickland’s school funding formula towards something new. 

PolitiFact Ohio decided to check the governor’s progress on this campaign pledge on the Kasich-O-Meter. You can see the full story there. Then come back here to comment. 

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