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In these closing days of the 126th Ohio General Assembly, legislators are working quickly on pushing through bills before the session ends. State Rep. Charles Calvert introduced legislation on Nov. 30 to create the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Education Authority that will spend $16 million to allow a public or private entity to operate and control four or five startup schools in the next two years. The schools funding for students is similar to that for charter schools in Ohio, in which students in the schools will be counted in their resident district's enrollment and the state dollars will flow through the local school district's budget to the STEM schools. A nine-member authority that includes the state school superintendent, development director and the Ohio Board of Regents chancellor will hire a STEM CEO to hire and manage staffs at each school. The bill is scheduled for a possible vote this week.
Source: Akron Beacon Journal
Date: 12/10/2006
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