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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Ohios 25-year-old school voucher plan is creating an unconstitutional system of separately funded private education and leading to resegregation of some districts as nonminority students mostly take advantage of the program, according to a lawsuit challenging the system.
The EdChoice Program is depleting state funding meant to help struggling districts, and in many cases provides more money in voucher scholarships to districts than they receive in state assistance, said the lawsuit filed Monday in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.
In turn, many of the private schools attended by voucher students arent subject to state regulation and, unlike public schools, can base attendance on students intellectual capacity, athletic skills or religious faith, the lawsuit said.
The Ohio Constitution calls for a system of common schools, with standards and resources for all Ohioans, said Eric Brown, a member of the Columbus school board and a former Democratic chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
Funding schools that arent for everybody is not the business of the Ohio General Assembly, and it is not the responsibility of Ohio taxpayers to pay for these private schools, Brown said Tuesday.
https://www.wcpo.com/news/government/state-government/ohio-state-government-news/schools-lawsuit-ohio-pupil-voucher-system-unconstitutional
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)but it is a way to make sure that 'those' people don't get the chance to, you know, 'better' themselves. Besides, not everybody wants their kids to have to be in a classroom with "those kind" - right?
Diamond_Dog
(32,002 posts)Just the privileged
LiberalFighter
(50,942 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)As if the First Amendment isn't reason enough.
MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)has been being 'blurred' for years now - and that process is part of what they love about IQ45 - he doesn't give a s**t - he and his own kids went to private schools so who cares!!!! That's why Betsy DeVos was the 'Education Secretary' ( ) - she was a pro at directing 'public' money to non-public schools (and this is SO against the Constitution - but Moscow Mitch's Supreme Court can't read or understand that part).
It is ALWAYS the same story - FOLLOW THE MONEY!!!!!!!!
localroger
(3,626 posts)They are not supposed to take any public money. I attended a Catholic school even though my parents were Baptist; there were arrangements for this. The school was fully funded through tuition and alumni donations. They also gave me an excellent secular education, which is what my parents paid them to do. (Then again this may be a New Orleans thing, here the Catholic schools really do have the best secular education credentials.) But at least in my day as a student they did not whine about the public system and ask for public funding. They knew their place. And it was not a nice place in many ways, but it was theirs to make and to own.
crickets
(25,981 posts)NowISeetheLight
(3,943 posts)Would help fix this. So students enter Kindergarten on an equal footing.
Squeaky41
(160 posts)Our tax resources should only go to a public education environment. Private education should rely on tuition resources only. Don't expect us to support rejection of "free" school for private selection. Better public teacher salaries would boost system enrolment.
YP_Yooper
(291 posts)but all 4 of my kids attended one of the "top" public school systems in the Toledo area all the way up until we moved here to Pittsburgh. Did well there. The private schools always did better because they picked the "appropriate" student that would "fit the expectations" of the school.
All four were struggling to catch up to the educational level expected here. Pretty shocked, frankly. Glad I moved from that crazy state.