The Education and Career Readiness Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives is debating a bill that would make beginning the school year after Labor Day a condition for communities to receive State education funding.

Intent is to lengthen the summer vacation season in order to benefit providers of tourism services to the domestic market.

This has been tried before in Ohio, but unsuccessfully.

Schools in Maryland and Michigan currently start after Labor Day, and a similar proposal was considered in New Hampshire in 2017.

An analysis done by the Comptroller of Maryland in 2013-2014 found that a post-Labor-Day school start date statewide would produce an incremental $74M in direct economic activity.

Principal arguments against the post-Labor-Day start date have to do with the difficulty of squeezing in mandated numbers of school days, and the impact of snow days.