State Rep. Joseph G. Pavlov (R-Smiths Creek) recently voted for a K-12 education budget plan spearheaded by House Republicans that cuts wasteful red tape and includes historic amounts of per pupil funding. The legislative package supported by Pavlov removes expensive, for-profit grant programs and increases the foundation allowance to $12,000 per student, the highest in the state’s history.

“Our education budget plans have wasted taxpayer money for years on broken systems,” Pavlov said. “Our plan moves us in a different direction, making sure funding goes directly to the people who know students’ needs the best: the local school districts, the teachers, and the students’ families.”

Pavlov previously worked as an educator at Marysville High School, teaching English, speech, and drama for 38 years. He pointed to his nearly four decades of experience in education as having given him insight into the frustrating ways that the government has conventionally spent school aid.

“Our local schools have been asking for the freedom to use state funding how they please, free of overregulation and burdensome government mandates,” Pavlov said. “Now, thanks to the new budget plan House Republicans have put together, schools are getting exactly that in record amounts of funding. This will go a long way in turning around the decline in educational performance our state has seen for a long time now.”