10 Ohio school bills to watch in 2025

Proposals making headlines and what they would do:

📜 SB 34: Declares the Ten Commandments a "historic document" so they can be displayed in public schools.

🥪 SB 109: Provides free breakfast and lunch to all students.

🚫 SB 113 and HB 155: Bans diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools.

📉 SB 127: Automatically closes or takes other remedial action against low-performing schools.

🎓 SB 13 and HB 25: Establish a college scholarship program for children in foster care.

🚌 HB 3: Increases fines for illegally passing school buses and funds bus safety upgrades.

✍️ HB 190: Requires parent permission for school employees to call a student a different name than what's on their birth certificate.

💰 HB 96: The House's state budget proposal for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 reduces school funding, caps districts' cash reserves and further expands public funding for private schools.

• It also turns over "ultimate authority" to a university's board of trustees.

🇺🇸 HB 117: Mandates reciting the Pledge of Allegiance daily.

🗓️ HB 145: Adds 53 hours of instruction to the school year.