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The state budget sent to Gov. Mike DeWine's desk this week includes significant cuts in funding for some schools in Northeast Ohio, with Parma in particular losing about $4 million over the next two years.

The ruling on the lawsuit, filed by a coalition of more than 300 school districts, will likely be appealed. Meanwhile, Ohio legislators are still working on next year's budget which includes expanded funding for vouchers.

The levies on the ballot come as districts have seen less success in recent years with getting new levies passed, and as the state is looking to drastically pull back on its previous commitment to expanding public school funding.

Ohio House Republicans are offering small increases to public school districts as many face significant budget challenges and the state continues to focus significant resources on private school vouchers.

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine approved the state’s budget earlier this summer, the state boosted the state’s private-school scholarships to $8,407 for high school students. That’s now more than what most public school districts are receiving, on average, in funding from the state.

As the school year gets started for many students — whether they attend public, private or charter schools— it might be a good time to pause and look at how those students' schools are impacted by state funding in Ohio.

Most of Ohio's new school levies failed Tuesday, according to the Ohio Association of School Boards. That's the lowest success rate for these bond issues and levy requests since 2007 when the country was on the cusp of the Great Recession.

Parma City School District is again trying to win over voter support for a bond issue that will be on the ballot in May, meant to fund construction of a new high school.

Ohio Department of Job and Family Services Director Matt Damschroder visited the Murtis Taylor Child Care Center at the Kathryn R. Tyler Center in Cleveland Thursday to see the impact of new upgrades to the building, paid for, in part, by the local nonprofit PRE4CLE’s Early Learning Spaces program.

As voter concerns about inflation continue to grow, several attempts to get new funding for school districts in Northeast Ohio fell flat, including in Parma and Nordonia. However, elsewhere, voters were more charitable, with plenty of school levy renewals passing and some other new-dollar requests getting approved.