COLUMBUS — The application process begins this morning for grants that will cover bus transportation costs for field trips to the Ohio Statehouse and its museum.

81 schools across the state will receive these grants. Each grant's amount will be determined based on the one-way mileage from the visiting school to the Ohio Statehouse. Schools 50 miles or less could receive a $200 grant. Schools 51 to 100 miles away from the statehouse would receive $300. Schools more than 100 miles away would receive $400.

The grants are available to any Ohio school that receives state funding and are limited to students in the 4th through 12th grades during this academic year.

Since the program's inception in 2009, tens of thousands of students from all 88 counties in Ohio have visited the Ohio Statehouse

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