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Department of Education and Workforce

Ohio’s state education agency since 2023, created by H.B. 33 as a cabinet-level department reporting to the Governor, with a Director appointed by the Governor. verified The State Board of Education and the Superintendent of Public Instruction were retained but stripped of most operational authority, which now sits with the department. verified

actor/department-of-education-and-workforce · 6 nodes point here

DEW is the publisher of record for current-era numbers: the School Finance Payment Reports that carry per-agency Fair School Funding Plan amounts, the average daily membership counts the formula divides by, and the scholarship and community school deduction records. verified A break in publisher partway through a series is exactly the kind of discontinuity that produces two defensible answers to the same question, so any Ohio state aid series that spans 2023 spans two agencies. inference

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NameDepartment of Education and Workforce
Kind of institutionexecutive-agency
Established2023-10-03
AuthorityComputes and disburses Fair School Funding Plan payments; determines average daily membership; administers EdChoice, Jon Peterson, and Autism scholarships and the community school deduction; maintains IRN records for all education agencies.
PublishesSchool Finance Payment Reports (SFPR); Foundation Funding data files; district typology; enrollment and ADM series. Primary feed for the dew-foundation connector.