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Ohio Taxpayers Deserve Accountability and Oversight of $2.5 Billion Being Sent to Private Schools
A bipartisan group of Ohio lawmakers thinks so. But Ohio House Speaker Matt Huffman doesn’t.
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Ohio Bill Would Require Increased Accountability for Schools Using Private School Vouchers
“The current voucher system is doing two things — providing tuition coupons for wealthy Ohio families to be able to send their children to private schools, and it’s underfunding Ohio’s public school districts,” said Rep. Kent Smith.
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‘It’s Obviously Unconstitutional.’ Vouchers Hurt Ohio Speaks Out Against New Republican Bill
A GOP lawmaker’s proposal to withhold funding from districts that have joined a lawsuit against the state’s voucher program has drawn fierce blowback.
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Ohio Spent More Than a Billion Dollars on Private School Vouchers in Fiscal Year 2025
“It seems like the EdChoice voucher program is expanding and skyrocketing with the money that’s being poured into that program, and there aren’t nearly as many students in that program to warrant that kind of infusion of money.”
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Ohio Republicans Plan to Appeal Ruling That Private School Voucher Program is Unconstitutional
“It is difficult to say that EdChoice is simply a scholarship that follows and/or benefits the students as opposed to a system that benefits private schools,” Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Judge Jaiza Page wrote in her decision.
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Trump Order Prioritizes School Choice and Vouchers, Which Ohio Has Been Expanding for Decades
But a recent study found “voters view public schools, including their local public school, more favorably than charter, private or religious schools”
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Provisions Removed From Ohio Bill That Would Add Accountability to Private Schools, Voucher Program
Ohio spent nearly a billion dollars on private school scholarship programs for the 2024 fiscal year
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Ohio Dems Lay Out Education Bills to Increase Funding, Target Private Vouchers and Student Hunger
They include a bill to phase-in the Fair School Funding Plan
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Private Schools, Public Money: School Leaders Are Pushing Parents to Exploit Voucher Programs
Voucher expansions have unleashed a flood of additional taxpayer dollars to the benefit of families already enrolled in private schools. In Ohio, some schools are now “strongly encouraging” parents to apply for vouchers, regardless of need or income.