CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Close to half of the school districts in the state would see their state aid decrease under

school funding proposal, once more money is pulled from them to go to charter schools, according to new analyses by the state legislature's research arm and The Plain Dealer.

The Cleveland schools would take the biggest hit -- nearly $5 million -- in calculations released Wednesday that some say contradicts Kasich's pledge to not cut funding for any district.

The Toledo schools would see their state aid drop nearly $1.5 million. In Northeast Ohio, East Cleveland would be down $422,000 and Cleveland Heights-University Heights down $127,000.

All were listed as having no change in earlier estimates from Kasich's office.

"Cleveland and Toledo, who were going to be flat, are going to be down," said David James, superintendent of the Akron school district and co-chairman of the Ohio 8 Coalition of the state's largest school districts. "We've been asking when the other shoe is going to fall."

Ohio school money

Combining Gov. John Kasich's estimates of district funding under his plan, and a Legislative Service Commission estimate of how much of it will go to charter schools, here's how each local district's state aid could change for the 2013-14 school year:

Cuyahoga County Change Bay Village $118 Beachwood -$8,802 Bedford $1,135,598 Berea $1,448,730 Brecksville Broad. Hts. -$507 Brooklyn $164,879 Chagrin Falls -$1,504 Cleveland Hts. Univ. Hts. -$126,580 Cleveland -$4,899,234 Cuyahoga Hts. $3,446 East Cleveland -$422,486 Euclid $5,797,317 Fairview Park $413,780 Garfield Hts. $1,333,051 Independence $2,202 Lakewood -$38,092 Maple Hts. $3,185,619 Mayfield -$1,356 North Olmsted $260,101 North Royalton -$22,246 Olmsted Falls $321,436 Orange $106,144 Parma $5,215,993 Richmond Hts. -$19,333 Rocky River -$801 Shaker Hts. $737,780 Solon $422,873 S. Euclid Lyndhurst $706,930 Strongsville -$22,549 Warrensville Hts. -$3,689 Westlake $9,127 Geauga County Change Berkshire -$12,002 Cardinal -$4,858 Chardon -$6,692 Kenston $6,573 Ledgemont -$136 Newbury $12,033 West Geauga -$8,581 Lake County Change Fairport Harbor -$5,263 Kirtland -$7,391 Madison -$13,707 Mentor -$26,185 Painsville City $2,560,505 Perry $45,077 Riverside $1,141,414 Wickliffe $336,685 Willoughby Eastlake $1,923,654 Lorain County Change Amherst -$5,247 Avon Lake $1,161,411 Avon $2,468,988 Clearview $313,166 Columbia -$5,878 Elyria $1,431,407 Firelands -$5,123 Keystone -$5,694 Lorain $5,086,742 Midview -$20,028 North Ridgeville $66,650 Oberlin -$7,273 Sheffield Shef. Lake -$44,057 Vermilion -$18,446 Wellington $10,170 Medina County Change Black River -$19,381 Brunswick $2,168,063 Buckeye -$13,849 Cloverleaf -$16,228 Highland $12,156 Medina $435,348 Wadsworth $862,161 Portage County Change Aurora $462,032 Crestwood -$20,564 Field $878,141 James A Garfield $12,144 Kent -$2,419 Ravenna $1,497,304 Rootstown $2,481 Southeast $1,443 Streetsboro $14,702 Waterloo -$451 Windham -$8,200 Summit County Change Akron $2,534,205 Barberton $1,433,078 Copley-Fairlawn $221,888 Coventry $86,094 Cuyahoga Falls $949,098 Green $65,030 Hudson -$18,029 Manchester $1,688 Mogadore $147,458 Nordonia Hills $15,477 Norton $185,275 Revere -$297 Springfield -$32,613 Stow-Munroe Falls -$17,030 Tallmadge $674,394 Twinsburg $2,793,260 Woodridge $602,793

See bottom of the story to find details for each district in Ohio.

But Kasich spokesman Rob Nichols said the governor's promise applied to "districts as a whole," which includes charter schools that district students attend, not to traditional school districts themselves.

He also questioned the estimates from the Legislative Service Commission.

"The guarantee applies to the district as a whole and under it, no district will receive less than it did last year under the formula," Nichols said. "While we don't believe the LSC data are reliable or complete, naturally, if a child leaves the district for a charter school, the money will follow the child, just as it would if a child left a charter a school to enroll in the district."

State Rep. Matt Lundy, an Elyria Democrat, criticized Kasich for not being clear about the true effects of the budget.

"I believe districts were misled, because they were told that everybody would at least be the same," Lundy said Wednesday.

Officials in Cleveland declined to comment until they could verify the details, while Toledo's superintendent could not be reached.

When Kasich unveiled his school funding proposal Jan. 31, he and his staff stressed that they were funding students, wherever they might attend school. At the same time, Kasich guaranteed that no district would be cut because that would create chaos that would hurt education.

When the governor's office released estimates of funding to districts under his formula in early February, they included money that would go to charter schools for students that live in the district. That is standard in Ohio, which looks at charter school money as a pass-through from the state to districts to charters.

But Kasich and his staff turned down repeated calls for estimates of what the charter funding would look like, along with those for voucher programs. They said those had never been calculated before and that incomplete information would make them inaccurate, a response that frustrated legislators and school officials.

Legislators asked the Legislative Service Commission to calculate funding for charter schools under the plan. The commission found that charter schools would receive an average of a 4.5 percent increase in state aid, along with Kasich's proposed $100 per student to help with charter school facilities.

At the request of State Rep. Debbie Philips, an Athens-area Democrat, the commission on Wednesday also provided legislators with estimates of how much money would be deducted from each district's state aid to go to charter schools. The estimates use 2012 student enrollments, which will differ by the 2013-14 year when Kasich's budget would take effect, but are the latest available.

The Plain Dealer then compared the commission's estimated change in charter school money to Kasich's earlier estimates for districts.

Of the state's 612 districts, 279 will see state aid fall after charter money is deducted. Others will gain, though those figures will be reduced as their charter payouts increase.

Though Cleveland and Toledo see large decreases, not all urban school districts will lose. Urban areas typically have many more charter schools than rural areas. The Columbus schools, who earlier estimates showed would have big gains, remain the biggest winner, adding $26.4 million even after $2.8 million is shifted to charter schools.

Canton, Cincinnati and Dayton are also among the top gainers, netting $8.2, $9.4 and $9.8 million, respectively, after the charter school payouts.

Districts like Akron and Youngstown would see their gains under Kasich's formula cut significantly by the charter school deductions.

Statewide list

Combining Gov. John Kasich's estimates of district funding under his plan, and a Legislative Service Commission estimate of how much of it will go to charter schools, here's how each local district's state aid could change for the 2013-14 school year: