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Education State of the States

Ohio

By Christina A. Samuels — February 15, 2005 1 min read
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Gov. Bob Taft proposed expanding the state’s voucher program beyond Cleveland in the budget he released Feb. 10.

In his State of the State Address a day earlier, Mr. Taft, a Republican, noted that his budget would “include new choices for students trapped in persistently failing schools.”

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His two-year education budget for the 2006 and 2007 fiscal years recommends $6.9 billion in general fund spending for K-12 schools for fiscal 2006, up just over 2 percent from the current year.

The budget also recommends spending $9 million to offer new vouchers worth up to $3,500 to 2,600 public school students in schools outside Cleveland with low test scores.

Read the text of Gov. Taft’s . ()

Currently, some 4,000 students in Cleveland receive vouchers worth up to $2,700 to attend private secular or parochial schools.

Mr. Taft also said he wanted to establish a statewide education partnership to “engage educators, employers, and legislators in building a continuous learning system for students, preschool through college.”

That partnership would take on three tasks: align high school graduation requirements with college-readiness standards, increase the number of high school students who take a rigorous curriculum, and create incentives for colleges and universities to improve their graduation rates.

“Enrolling students is not enough,” Mr. Taft said. “We must do more to help them graduate.”

A version of this article appeared in the February 16, 2005 edition of Education Week

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