Gov. John Kasich’s budget proposal would throw out former Gov. Ted Strickland’s education blueprint

Gov. John Kasich doesn"t think much of his predecessor"s plan to pay for the education of Ohio"s schoolchildren.

In his campaign against then-Gov. Ted Strickland, Kasich vowed to scrap the so-called "evidence-based” funding model that Strickland considered one of his most important achievements. The funding formula tied school money to specific things found to be important to the quality of education, such as the size of classes and the number of counselors and administrators.

Kasich, however, attacked Strickland"s plan as being full of unfunded mandates on schools.

Documents outlining the two-year budget proposal Kasich unveiled on March 15 included specific language calling for the repeal of the evidence-based school funding model.

The budget is still being deliberated in the General Assembly, but based on Kasich"s proposal, we move the Kasich-O- Meter for this promise to In the Works.