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Ohio General Assembly
Ohio’s bicameral legislature — 99 House members and 33 Senators — and the body Article VI, Section 2 addresses directly: the constitutional duty to secure a thorough and efficient system of common schools is laid on the General Assembly, not on the Department of Education or on districts. verified Every Ohio funding regime was created by an act of this body, and the school funding formula is enacted inside the biennial operating budget rather than as standalone legislation, which means it is renegotiated in full every two years alongside every other appropriation. verified
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That biennial rhythm is itself a structural fact about Ohio school funding. A formula designed with a multi-year phase-in has no protection from a later General Assembly choosing not to continue it, and the Fair School Funding Plan’s phase-in has been re-legislated in each of three consecutive budgets rather than guaranteed by the enactment that created it. inference
The member’s own unit does not exist in the funding system Contents
A House member votes on a formula whose every output is computed per school district, and Ohio publishes no figure for what a House district’s schools receive — not because it is withheld but because no part of the system has ever needed the number. verified
The reason is structural rather than administrative: school districts and House districts do not nest. 339 of Ohio’s 609 school districts have population in two or more of the 99 House districts, and Columbus City has population in 11. verified computed from Census block geography County can be an attribution, because the department assigns each district exactly one; a legislative district cannot be, because most districts genuinely lie in several.
The body that sets the formula is districted on population and the formula pays on pupils, and those two are not distributed alike: Ohio is 22.0% under 18 statewide and that share varies widely between seats. A House district is by construction equal to its neighbors in people and unequal in children. inference
What this repository computed Contents
Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.
So the corpus now derives it, by joining Ohio’s 276,428 census blocks to their school
district and their House district and apportioning each district’s funding by under-18
population. verified Census block geography,
joined to the funding model through the NCES CCD
directory, carried in
crates/project/src/legislative_district.rs
Every figure that produces is an estimate, and the corpus holds it as one. Conservation
is exact in the arithmetic and not in the published figures: each school district’s shares
sum to one, so the apportionment loses no dollar by construction — but the feed carries each
seat’s total as a rounded dollar figure, and summing 99 of them accumulates. On the committed
feed the House seats total $7,281,227,593.71 and the Senate seats $7,281,227,592.75 against a
statewide realized_aid_total of $7,281,227,591.65: the two chambers disagree by $0.96, and
the House sits $2.06 above the statewide figure and the Senate $1.10. verified web/public/data/bundle.json Read
the conservation as a property of the method, not as a check a consumer can run to the cent.
What the estimate supports is
scale and comparison — how much of Ohio’s school money runs through the schools a member
represents, and how many of those districts are on the guarantee. What it cannot support is
any statement about a district’s entitlement, which is exact and belongs to the district.
verified
Properties Contents
| Name | Ohio General Assembly |
|---|---|
| Kind of institution | legislature |
| Established | 1803-03-01 |
| Authority | Holds the Article VI, Section 2 duty to provide for a thorough and efficient system of common schools. Enacts the biennial operating budget, which carries the school funding formula, the appropriation levels that determine phase-in, and the statutory text of every parameter. Levies and constrains local taxation authority. |
| Publishes | Enrolled bill text and session laws via the Legislative Service Commission; fiscal notes and budget analyses (redbooks); the Catalog of Budget Line Items. |
Links Contents
Pointed at by
| Ohio Constitution, Article VI, Section 2 (1851) | Imposes duty on |
|---|---|
| DeRolph v. State (DeRolph III, 2001) | Orders |
| Appropriation Proration Factor | Appropriated by |
| Casino Tax — County Student Fund | Appropriated by |
| Lottery Profits Education Fund | Appropriated by |
What this node used to say Contents
The corpus is not rewritten to have always been right. Each entry is a claim this node carried, what replaced it, and the thing that settled it.
Correction 1 of 1
It said
“The two chambers disagree by $0.97 and each sits $1-2 above the statewide figure.”
It says
$0.96. The two totals it is drawn from were right — $7,281,227,593.71 and
$7,281,227,592.75 — and their difference was not. The House sits $2.06 above
statewide.realized_aid_total and the Senate $1.10, so “each sits $1-2 above” was
also just outside on one side.
Settled by
Subtracting the two figures printed beside it, from the committed feed, while auditing #128.
What else it touched
The instruction the passage exists to give is unchanged: do not reconcile the chambers to
the cent. The same figure was carried by crates/bundle’s rustdoc, the Zod schema comment
and the catalog entry, and all four are corrected together.