Every budget for every school in Cincinnati Public Schools will be affected under a new budget formula approved unanimously Monday by the board of education.

        Some schools will be big winners while others will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars under the new budget strategy. Board of education members said they approved the plan to equalize funding throughout the district.

        “What this does is eliminate a system of inequities that the largest number of students and the largest number of schools have lived with for years,” said board member Lynn Marmer.

        Some of the schools expected to lose money next year are: the School for Creative and Performing Arts; Hughes Center; Clark Montessori; Shroder Paideia and Academy of World Languages.

        Exact amounts will have to be calculated.

        Many losers are the district's showcase magnet programs.

        “I agree the field should be level for all players and participants,” said Dennis McNeal, of Kennedy Heights, whose 8-year-old grandson attends Woodford Paideia.

        “You don't level the playing field by reducing the resources and status of magnet schools. You level the field by improving and increasing the resources of the neighborhood schools,” said Mr. McNeal, who is chairperson of Woodford's local school decision making committee.

        District officials say the funding of schools has been inherently unequal for years, causing some schools, like the showcase magnet programs, to get more money per pupil than others.

        Under the new funding formula, all schools will receive the same base funding for every student.

        However, board members say they recognize some students need more money to educate than others. In the formula, students will receive extra funding above the base weight if, for instance, they are gifted, in poverty, or take vocational courses.

        The new student-based budgeting will be phased in for up to two years for schools that lose funds.

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