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[State] Ohio [Score] 4 [Charter Law Description] 
Under Ohio law, charter school funding is the sum of opportunity grant funding, the per-pupil amount of targeted assistance funding for each student’s resident district times 0.25, special education funding, K-3 funding, economically disadvantaged funding, Limited English Proficiency funding, and career tech funding. Ohio law requires districts to provide transportation for all charter students but also allows charter schools to accept responsibility for transportation and receive funding for this directly from the state under prescribed circumstances. In a national study of charter school funding (University of Arkansas, Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands, 2014), Ohio charter schools were receiving on average $8,580 per pupil in public funds, while traditional public schools would have received $11,674 for those students. As a result, the state’s charter schools were receiving $3,184 per pupil—or 27.1 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This figure includes all sources of funding, and analysis reveals some continued inequities for both operational and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description