George Voinovich: As governor, inherited and closed a roughly $1.5 billion state budget deficit; unemployment fell to what was then a 25-year low with over 500,000 net new jobs; cut Medicaid cost growth by more than two-thirds and roughly halved welfare rolls under welfare reform; dramatically expanded state funding for Head Start; appointed Kenneth Blackwell as state treasurer, Ohio's first Black statewide elected/appointed official; signed the state's first charter-school law and backed a Cleveland school-voucher program that survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge; base cost per pupil in the K-12 school-funding formula rose from $2,530 in FY1990 to $3,663 in FY1998 as the DeRolph v. State school-funding litigation proceeded.

This is one of 4 dated entries in George Voinovich's record in office on this site, filed as a action dated 1991. The sentence above is the entry as this site states it; anyone else's reading of it is listed below in their words.

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1991

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action

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As governor, inherited and closed a roughly $1.5 billion state budget deficit; unemployment fell to what was then a 25-year low with over 500,000 net new jobs; cut Medicaid cost growth by more than two-thirds and roughly halved welfare rolls under welfare reform; dramatically expanded state funding for Head Start; appointed Kenneth Blackwell as state treasurer, Ohio's first Black statewide elected/appointed official; signed the state's first charter-school law and backed a Cleveland school-voucher program that survived a U.S. Supreme Court challenge; base cost per pupil in the K-12 school-funding formula rose from $2,530 in FY1990 to $3,663 in FY1998 as the DeRolph v. State school-funding litigation proceeded.

• Record in office on George Voinovich's page

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1. https://www.nga.org/governor/george-v-voinovich/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Voinovich