Three of eight school districts in Warren County would receive new money under Gov. John Kasich’s proposed school funding plan, none of them for more than one year.

Mason, Kings and Springboro school districts are proposed for increases for fiscal year, according to a Today’s Pulse analysis of data the governor’s office released.

Kings schools — with enrollment around 3,893 — is slated to receive $5.5 million in 2013; and would receive nearly $1.38 million, or 25 percent more in fiscal year 2014.

Kings Treasurer Mike Mowery said anything that district officials said about the increase would be premature.

“I haven’t seen anything regarding the underlying formulas and there are other pieces missing, like transportation, that haven’t even been released,” Mowery said. “We would certainly welcome any increase, since we’ve not had one since 2003 and in fact have had decreases the last few years.”

If the sum total of what is ultimately approved is more than what the district is currently receiving, officials would view it as a positive, “but it’s really early to know what the bottom line is,” Mowery said.

“The benefit to us of any additional moneys would be to prolong the period between levies, but again, it might not make much of a difference at all,” he said.

Mason, a district of 10,381 students, is receiving $24,492,605 million from Ohio for fiscal year 2013.

Under Kasich’s proposed budget, the district would receive $25,023,861 for fiscal year 2014. That’s $531,256 more, a 2.17 percent increase.

Kasich’s plan puts the school district on a “guarantee” in 2015, which could mean that the district would lose funding in future years when the governor has said he will recommend eliminating guarantees.

The Five Year Financial Plan that the district’s board of education released in October projected flat funding in FY 2014 and FY 2015.

“This is a slight increase from my projections, but caution is needed because the future looks pretty uncertain under this proposal, and there may be changes between now and when the legislature approves the budget in June,” said Richard Gardner, Mason’s treasurer. “We are still reeling from a $7 million reduction in TPP (tangible personal property tax) reimbursement, and we may see state funding reduced further in the future.”

Springboro schools — with enrollment around 5,550 — is slated to receive $9.4 million in 2013; and would receive $1.54 million or about 16.3 percent more in fiscal year 2014.

Carlisle, Franklin, Lebanon, Little Miami and Wayne school districts would get no new state money over what they received for this current fiscal year, which ends June 30.

Superintendents in Carlisle and Franklin, two of Warren County’s poorest school districts, say they feel betrayed by Gov. John Kasich, who pledged a week ago that low-income districts would get more state aid and wealthy districts less under his new education plan.

It was a theme that played out across the state and drew sharp criticism from many of the same superintendents who were praising the governor after his speech last week.

“The governor was on every TV and radio station in state of Ohio saying poorer districts were going to get money,” said Franklin Superintendent Arnol Elam. “The statements the governor made are a damn lie. It is just more of the same rhetoric we’ve had before.”

Carlisle Superintendent Larry Hook, who attended Kasich’s address in Columbus, said he was optimistic at the time, but recalled telling a reporter afterward that he wanted to wait and see the plan’s details and figures first. The end result, Hook said, has turned out to be a disappointment.

“It just seems like the rich get richer, and the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves,” Hook said, noting more than 40 percent of the district’s students are on free and reduced lunches. “I guess the silver lining is that at least we aren’t cut.”

Kasich has defended his comments from a week ago about helping poor districts, saying his formula is consistent and funds students and not buildings.