EdChoice vouchers

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine approved the state’s budget earlier this summer, the state boosted the state’s private-school scholarships to $8,407 for high school students. That’s now more than what most public school districts are receiving, on average, in funding from the state.

The newly passed two year state budget boasts many benefits for Portage County, including new tax credits for affordable housing and funding for a crisis stabilization center.

Students who use private school vouchers in Ohio are coming from wealthier families than previous voucher recipients, and are more likely to have attended a private school before getting a voucher, a new study from the Ohio Education Policy Institute suggests.

Lawmakers in the House of Representatives are sponsoring a bill that would let all students go to any private school in the state.

A growing number of Northeast Ohio school districts have joined a coalition planning to take the state to court over the controversial private school voucher program, EdChoice. The school boards of Cleveland Heights-University Heights, Canton, Crestview Local and Richmond Heights all recently passed resolutions to join the coalition, newly named “Vouchers Hurt Ohio.”

The House and Senate are locked in a stalemate on how to change the state's private school voucher system. One chamber wants to tweak the school building…

Ohio school officials say they’re backing a plan that would phase-out the private school voucher program known as EdChoice. The House-passed legislation…

A lawsuit has been filed in the Ohio Supreme Court by families who are affected by the legislature’s recently imposed 60-day moratorium on vouchers for…

The House has voted on a plan to move the start of the EdChoice application process ahead to April 1, just hours before the private school voucher program…