Ohio governor candidates clash over Ohio’s new system for funding public schools

Ohio governor candidates clash over school funding

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a defining moment in the Ohio governor’s race, Gov. Ted Strickland and his rival in the fall election are locking horns over the new public schools funding system on which Strickland has staked his governorship.

Republican John Kasich, the former congressman and presidential candidate, says the plan is unfunded and should be scrapped. Democrat Strickland says it’s transformative and calls Kasich reckless.

The system is called the “evidence-based model.” It was enacted as part of last year’s Ohio budget to address a previous funding system that the Ohio Supreme Court had repeatedly found unconstitutional.