The Senate has added the amendment to the state's proposed budget, and advocates for low-income Ohioans are urging lawmakers to take it out.

Updating the data would disrupt schools' funding and increase costs in the future, according to school funding expert.

The county is one of eight across the country involved in the program, which includes a $125,000 grant and assistance from the Urban Institute for the next 18 months.

The Ohio Senate approved its version of the state budget last Wednesday. They day before, a last minute amendment was added anonymously that severely restricts municipalities from providing broadband internet service.

Akron City Council is considering a law that would require police to automatically post body camera footage within a week of an officer using deadly force; Dennis Kucinich will seek another bid for Cleveland mayor more than 40 years later; several Northeast Ohio municipalities are speaking out against an amendment slipped into the Senate’s state budget proposal that limits public broadband projects and cuts all broadband-related funding; and more stories.

Pandemic relief funds are set aside to prevent the road hazards that have caused significant damage in some parts of Ohio.