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CHUH Schools Could Receive More Money From Ohio Over Two-Year Period

The CHUH School District would get slightly more money in Gov. John Kasich's two-year budget proposal

, the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District's share of Ohio money doesn't look so bad. 

The Ohio Office of Budget and Management released more detailed figures on funding at the district level Thursday, and the would actually get more money over the two-year period in Gov. John Kasich's budget proposal.

The district received 17 percent of its revenue from the state, or $18,055,154 this year, according to district officials and documents from the Ohio OBM. The projected state assistance for 2012 is $18,010,477, or 0.2 percent less than this year, according to the document from the Ohio OBM. In 2013, the projected funding increases by 2.5 percent, to $18,458,813.

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Other schools, however, would not fare as well. The amount of money that Solon would lose, for instance, is equivalent to . The state would slash , though that's less than 3 percent of its total revenue.  

A statement released by the Ohio OBM indicates that the funding was determined based on several factors, including each school district’s property value, how much federal stimulus funding it received and its populations.

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These numbers were entered into a formula that was created to ease the burden of the loss in federal stimulus funds to schools that have become heavily dependent on them.

Check Cleveland Heights Patch for updates as they become available. 

Editor's Note: Beachwood Patch editor Nikki Ferrell contributed to this report. 


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