FY2008-2009 Biennium

July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2009 — the last biennium of the foundation base cost formula, and the one in which H.B. 119 removed two of its protections: the cost of doing business factor and the base cost guarantee. verified

Both removals reduce what particular districts are owed while the total rises, which is why the biennium reads two ways depending on the grain. Statewide it is the decade’s peak. For a district that had been held by the guarantee, it is the year the floor went.

It is also the last biennium before the Evidence-Based Model, and therefore the last one computed by a method that had been in place, in recognizable form, since the 1990s.

What this repository computed # ↑ Contents

Not what Ohio publishes. Figures derived here from committed fixtures, each one citing the test that reproduces it.

The largest real foundation appropriation in the committed series # ↑ Contents

FY2008   enacted $9.369bn   foundation $6.428bn   68.6%   real $9.810bn
FY2009   enacted $9.553bn   foundation $6.703bn   70.2%   real $10.378bn

$10.378bn in constant FY2026 dollars is the peak, FY2002 through FY2027, and 70.2% is the peak share. Every later figure in the series is below both. verified appropriation-lines.csv, bundle::deflator

That is worth stating plainly because the decade is usually narrated as decline, and the decline does not begin where the narration puts it. It begins after FY2009, in the biennium that enacted the Evidence-Based Model.

Poverty neared 40% here # ↑ Contents

36.6% then 39.6% approved for free or reduced-price meals, over 883 and 896 sponsors — up 10.1 points from FY2002, on one unbroken basis. verified mr81-sponsor-panel.csv It passes 40% the year after, at 42.6% in FY2010, the last year of that basis; the department moves to a different one in FY2011 and the two cannot be compared directly.