After backlash, Ohio GOP split over cutting public school funding

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : "Callender wants to work together with Huffman to find a way to support public education while making sure the budget is balanced.
56% : Bride Rose Sweeney (D-Cleveland) and Jamie Callender (R-Concord), in 2021, required $333 million additional dollars a year for K-12 education funding -- or about $2 billion overall.
56% : "Every dollar that goes to a voucher, it's a dollar that's taken from public education," Martin said.
55% : And for him, public education is on the chopping block.
55% : "You can't say that public education is unsustainable when you're spending that money," Martin said.
54% : But for public schools, the voucher program is siphoning money from them.
53% : Those six, and at least 15 others we have spoken to in recent weeks, say that one of their main priorities is supporting public schools.
42% : "In short, Huffman proposed cutting at least $650 million in public education spending in this G.A.'s budget.
42% : "It absolutely becomes sort of that downward spiral where you defund us, and then somehow expect us to meet expectations and parameters that only continue to increase," the superintendent said, adding that public schools are graded much harsher than nonpublic.
40% : "I think the more that you can spotlight this issue and the importance of funding public education...
37% : He criticized Huffman for his championing of the private school voucher system, with the state spending nearly $1 billion in public money to send kids to nonpublic schools.

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