Former Ohio state Rep. John Patterson, co-author of Ohio’s Full School Funding Plan — the final phase of which has an uncertain future in the next state budget — said in an online forum last week that the full funding is a necessity for local schools and a responsibility for the state.
Patterson put together what would later be called the Fair School Funding Plan with former House Speaker Bob Cupp in 2017, in an effort to bring about the “adequacy” in public school funding demanded by the Ohio Constitution and four separate Ohio Supreme Court orders that the state properly fund public schools.
