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Robert McColley: “President going to be Senate Bill 1. It's going to be the…”

Featuring: Robert McColley, Republican | Ohio State Senate, District 1

Senate Declares Higher Education Reform as Senate Bill 1

Published January 17, 2025 | Video Starts at 08:52

That's right. And I know that you've been very supportive of Senate Bill 83, priority piece of legislation from your perspective as the leader of the Ohio Senate, as the. President going to be Senate Bill 1. It's going to be the first bill we take up. I would expect quick action out of the Senate because as Jerry brought up, we already passed it. This is something the Senate has already demonstrated that the Senate supports broadly. (08:52–08:58)

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“We have approved record funding in every single budget and over the last several cycles for public education.”
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“Money going directly to public schools has been at a record level for some time.”
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“Despite the record increases in funding that we've seen for public education in the state, the results in many ways have remained the same.”
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“Every district across the state has gotten a lot more money.”
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“The Senate has already demonstrated that the Senate supports [Senate Bill 1] broadly.”
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“Higher education needs to provide higher education, not indoctrination.”
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“There was a campus in Ohio that handled those protests swiftly... their enrollment went up.”
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“The biggest feature of those five centers is, you know, they're required by statute to talk about the nation's founding, the founding…”
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“They're also required to be insulated from the normal bureaucracy at the university.”
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“What we've seen, and this has been statistically proved over self-reported data, is that a sharp leftward turn and faculty was never center…”
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“One of the big features of these institutions is that they are insulated from faculty senates.”
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“We have an abundant supply of natural gas right underneath our own soil.”
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“Ohio is at a turning point as far as really being able to set itself up for decades of really harnessing that competitive advantage.”
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“Our 13 state plus Washington D.C. grid operator that we're in, primarily it's made up of states who don't like fossil fuel.”
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“We're going to put some policies in place that are going to open the door to that type of investment here and make us an energy dominant…”
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“Ohio is in a position to really capitalize off of [abundant water supply] relative to other states.”
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“If we put the right policies in place, which include a good tax environment, we're really going to be able to, to be an economic powerhouse…”
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“Over the course of the past several decades, our property tax system has become a convoluted mess.”
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“The vast majority of the money from your property taxes, probably depending on the school district, anywhere between 65, 75% goes to your…”
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“Our property tax system needs to be way more transparent. It needs to be way easier to understand.”
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