Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine’s two-year state budget proposal seeks to get more high school students to stay in Ohio for college through increased scholarship funding. But overall funding for the Ohio Department of Higher Education dips in the second year of his plan.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine wants to give parents working minimum-wage jobs a tax credit, but no other tax cuts were included in a budget proposal that focused strongly on children. In the $218 billion, two-year budget,

Child advocacy group Groundwork Ohio praised the budget proposal’s “commitment to Ohio’s youngest children,” and pointed to recent polling that showed 84% of Ohio voters support a child tax credit, with majorities on all political sides supporting a measure like DeWine’s.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has taken a stand, deciding in his budget to fully fund public education after some of his Republican colleagues threatened to cut K-12 spending. But educators can’t rest yet, as GOP lawmakers are already digging into his proposal.

Gov. Mike DeWine’s newly unveiled state budget plan would drastically raise taxes on sports gambling that could help fund a new Cleveland Browns stadium, pump more money into K-12 schools and offer more state help to parents with children,

Gov. Mike DeWine has introduced his final two-year state budget, a $218 billion plan that funds state programs and agencies while proposing tax increases on certain items to support new