An Ohio court’s ruling against $776 million in vouchers reignites the fight over who should pay for private school
Source: Fortune ·
Only 24% of first-time EdChoice Expansion recipients came from public schools, and judges found the program competes for money with a public system Ohio hasn't fully funded.
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Ohio gives parents taxpayer-funded vouchers to send their children to private schools. But those schools still get to cherry-pick which children they accept. That contradiction sits at the center of an Ohio appeals court ruling that declared the state’s EdChoice voucher program unconstitutional on Oct. 15. The Tenth District Court of Appeals upheld a June 2025 lower-court decision, finding that the program uses public money to secure “a separate system of non-public schools” at the expense of public education. For families using the vouchers, nothing changes immediately. The ruling is on hold pending an appeal, and Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson said the program would continue uninterrupted as the state asks the Ohio Supreme Court to review the case. How EdChoice went from a rescue program to universal vouchers Created in 2005 and launched the following year, EdChoice was originally designed to help children assigned to chronically underperforming public schools attend private…
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