Columbus City school districts’ Win-Win debate may rekindle

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By Bill Bush | The Columbus Dispatch

win-winEvery six years, it returns: Win-Win.

The complicated tax-sharing arrangement between Columbus City Schools and several suburban districts reopens for negotiation next year. In 1986, the legal pact called a truce in an intense political war over which districts had the legal right to teach children in the fast-developing edges of the city of Columbus.

The dispute was settled with cash — mostly paid by the suburban districts to Columbus City Schools. Columbus now receives a total of almost $5.2 million a year from nine suburban districts.

Next year’s negotiation was heralded recently when a state representative slipped a provision into Ohio’s two-year budget bill to effectively cancel the accord.

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