COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It’s a worst-case scenario: the state cutting an additional 25 percent from the funds given to school districts on a per-pupil basis.
But administrators at Ohio schools are turning pale at the possibility of losing an estimated $800 per pupil if this situation would come to pass.
Cutbacks of an additional 25 percent to all state-funded programs were raised as a possibility by Governor Strickland.
School officials from Central Ohio told NBC 4’s Tacoma Newsome that if a further 25 percent cut comes to pass, they would be deeply hurt.
Worthington Schools Treasurer Jeff McCuen said that system would lose $7 million.
South-Western City School District said it is already running lean, below state per-pupil averages.
In Reynoldsburg, where the state supplies 51 percent of the overall budget, there is a local levy on the ballot. But if these cuts go in, officials say, they’ll have to find another $6 million in cuts -- even if the state doesn’t go as far as they fear they may need to in order to balance the budget.
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