{"id":475,"date":"2026-04-20T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:33:09","slug":"protect-ohio-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Protect Ohio Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>OEA is part of a growing statewide coalition of educators, parents, first responders, seniors, and community members standing together against AxOHTax.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s state legislature has broken its commitment to public schools for the last 20 years. The most recent state budget underfunded Ohio\u2019s public schools by nearly $2.75 billion, driving the state\u2019s share of school funding to just 32.2% by 2027 \u2014 lower than it was before the Ohio Supreme Court ruled Ohio\u2019s school funding system unconstitutional in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>When the state doesn\u2019t pay its share, local property taxpayers do. AxOHTax doesn\u2019t fix that broken system. It destroys the only reliable source of local school funding that communities have left.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s students and families deserve real relief. This amendment isn\u2019t relief \u2014 it\u2019s a wrecking ball.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GO TO PROTECT OHIO SCHOOLS AT OHEA.ORG<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohea.org\/protect-ohio-schools\/?emci=2b475dba-d43c-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&amp;emdi=54647d0c-d53c-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&amp;ceid=9168185\">Don\u2019t Sign the AxOHTax Petition \u2014 and Help Us Stop It<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OEA is part of a growing statewide coalition of educators, parents, first responders, seniors, and community members standing together against AxOHTax. Ohio\u2019s state legislature has broken its commitment to public schools for the last 20 years. The most recent state budget underfunded Ohio\u2019s public schools by nearly $2.75 billion, driving the state\u2019s share of school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reynoldsburgea.ohea.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}