Posted on 07/07/2023 4:07:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Ohio joined the growing number of states passing pro-school choice legislation by expanding its voucher program to more families.
"Ohio is the eighth state to go all-in on school choice in just two years," Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, told Fox News. "The dam is breaking for the government school monopoly."
The $86 billion budget that Gov. Mike DeWine signed Tuesday included pro-school choice policies, joining Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma, which passed similar legislation in the past two years.
Ohio's voucher expansion allows families earning up to 450% of the federal poverty line ($135,000 for a family of four) to apply for scholarships. Previously, only families earning up to $250% of the poverty line were eligible.
The scholarships provided increased by 12% - the same increase public schools received - with up to about $6,200 for K-8 students and $8,400 for high schoolers to use for private schools or for homeschooling.
The funding a family receives depends on income, though scholarships won't drop below 10% of the full scholarship amount, according to Dayton Daily News.
"Now Ohio joins the growing list of states that are empowering all families with school choice by making every K-12 student eligible for an opportunity scholarship," Jason Bedrick, a research fellow at the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News.
"Gov. DeWine and state lawmakers deserve great credit for putting families in the driver’s seat when it comes to their kids’ education," Bedrick added. "Families deserve to be able to choose learning environments that align with their values and best fit their children’s unique learning needs. In Ohio, that aspiration is becoming a reality."
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I’ve got some bad news for all the school choice people. If you have intelligent kids who you care enough about to pay for them to go to a good private school, or live in an expensive area that has good public schools, you are not going to like school choice. The people you are paying to get away from are going to end up in your children’s schools and there will be no where left for you to go. It’s not going to work like people think it will.
It will still work if the private schools can expel students for behavior or academic issues. If they can not or will not do this you are correct and the "private" schools will turn into the same cesspits.
I agree. And if private school won’t maintain academic quality and discipline, I wouldn’t want my kids there anyway.
“It will still work if the private schools can expel students for behavior or academic issues.”
Will the schools, who will be receiving government money for these students, going to kick out troublesome kids, most of whom will inevitably be black?
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