Vouchers for Ohio private schools score double funding over public schools

The Ohio House's proposed budget INCREASES the private school voucher system BY $500 million and only gives $220 million to public schools. In 2024, Ohio gave over a billion dollars to private school vouchers.

The budget is expected to pass the House.

#Ohio #EdChoice #School #Education #Vouchers

https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/vouchers-for-ohio-private-schools-score-double-funding-over-public-schools

Ohio spent nearly a billion dollars on private school voucher scholarships in 2024

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/10/25/ohio-spent-nearly-a-billion-dollars-on-private-school-voucher-scholarships-in-2024/

Ohio House budget draft slashes library funding, risking vital services, library advocates say

Analysis by the Ohio #Library Council shows state funding would drop by more than $100 million compared to the governor’s proposal
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/04/ohio-house-budget-draft-slashes-library-funding-risking-vital-services-library-advocates-say/

One thing I am finding fascinating about all this DOGE crap is the god-awful amount of money our education system, from K through grad school, gets in federal funding.

I hope when we rebuild the US education system after they destroy it, it is more successful than it has been in its current state.

I hope it doesn't become ideological indoctrination mills like the right wants, like Ohio's #EdChoice is milling out.

Trump order prioritizes school choice and vouchers, which Ohio has been expanding for decades

In 2024, Ohio spent more than a billion taxpayers' dollars on EdChoice for 82,946 students. Most went to religious schools, K–12 many non-chartered church affiliated schools, who push their doctrine. There is very little oversight in curriculum and staffing

They want to expand the program to allow for building and infrastructure grants to these outfits.

Meanwhile, #Ohio Republicans plan on slashing public-school funding.

Also, Ohio property taxes significantly fund schools. I don't want my property tax to go to a taxpayer funded k-12 school which teaches woman to obey and be submissive to their husbands.

An actual lesson plan below. Many use ACE, Accelerated Christain Education, comic book style, learn as you go, style booklets.

In Ohio, 275 independent fundamentalist Baptist churches operate more than a hundred k-12 schools, usually out of their church facilities and receive taxpayer funding. These aren't your average Baptists, not even Southern Baptists. Sorry if you are one, but they aren't.

Taxpayers are paying for lesson plans, like the one below. #Education #USPol

More on ACE:(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Christian_Education)
Another post of mine.

See my posts under #EdChoice tag.

Image2 A pop-up EdChoice K-12 school in a church: Christian School, K-12, Training the next generation of Christian Leaders.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/30/trump-order-prioritizes-private-school-vouchers-which-ohio-has-been-expanding-for-decades/

Ohio GOP threatens to cut school funding, calling spending 'unsustainable'

Meanwhile, Ohio gave one billion dollars in 2024 for private school vouchers, mostly unaccredited church schools with very little oversight or curriculum mandates and oversight #Ohio #EdChoice #education

https://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/ohio-gop-threatens-to-cut-school-funding-calling-spending-unsustainable

Ohio adds $4 million to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce budget to defend against private school voucher lawsuit.

Last year, Ohio spent a billion dollars of taxpayers money to pay for 130,000 to attend private schools, mostly religious, church owned schools.

The state is facing a challenge to the constitutionality of vouchers, which the state uses to pay for private school tuition. The lawsuit was filed in 2022. #Ohio #EdChoice #USPol #OHPol

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-adds-4-million-to-defend-against-private-school-voucher-lawsuits/GGDL46KZPVCWNPABN4XXWDGT2Y/

AG sues Columbus City Schools for breaking Ohio law by not busing non-public school students

Ohio Republicans want Ohioans to pay even more for their private school voucher scheme, now with busing students to those schools. #Ohio #EdChoice

Many of these schools are unaccredited, church schools, many attached physically to their churches, in space used for church services and Sunday School, esp the independent Baptist franchise with their accelerated Christian edu.

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2024-09-06/ag-sues-columbus-city-schools-for-breaking-ohio-law-by-not-busing-non-public-school-students

Leadership in the #Ohio legislature “is made up of members of the GOP supermajority, who have pushed for expanding #privateschool subsidies, especially funding that would allow more students to use #vouchers (called the #EdChoice program) to attend private, sometimes religious schools, rather than the public schools in the district.”

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/02/07/education-committee-heads-could-predict-priorities-for-state/