Akron Public Schools board members vote 5-1 to join the statewide lawsuit against vouchers. Board members Diana Autry, Job Esau Perry, Rene Molenaur, Bruce Alexander and Barbara Sykes voted yes and Carla Jackson voted no. Summer Hall abstained. The resolution allows the district to join the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding, which […]
Jun. 24—An Ohio House bill that has been going through committee hearings would require more accountability for private schools that accept EdChoice vouchers. School choice advocates generally oppose the bill, saying it goes past accountability and into a burden. House Bill 407 would directly impact EdChoice vouchers, which are state-funded “scholarships” used by students to […]
Groveport Madison school board on Wednesday tabled action on a resolution to join a lawsuit that aims to strike down Ohio’s universal vouchers. Groveport Madison school board meeting June 12. Second from left is Superintendent James Grube to his right is Board President Latoya Dowdell-Burger next is Vice President Seth Bower, next are members Libby […]
Landlords who have worked with housing voucher recipients say they’ve had good experiences with the program, writes our columnist. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Ailsa Hayes has been property manager at Country Meadows Residences since 2022. Before she took on her current position, the residential complex already accepted prospective tenants who utilized housing choice vouchers to find […]
Jun. 7—The state of Ohio spent $993.7 million last school year on vouchers to send kids to private schools. This is $383.7 million more than the year before and over $30 million more than legislative analysists predicted when lawmakers expanded the voucher program last year. Lawmakers said universal access to the EdChoice expansion program would […]
A wave of Republican incumbents were swept out of the Texas House in Tuesday’s primary runoffs, including a handful who opposed school vouchers last fall, handing Gov. Greg Abbott a tentative majority in the lower chamber on his signature issue. With most ballots counted across the state, six of the eight GOP House members who […]
This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. When Daniel Kiel was a student at Grahamwood Elementary and White Station High School in the 1980s and 1990s, he knew he was getting a good education. What he didn’t know was whether most of the Black students in his school were receiving the […]
(File/Getty Images) COLUMBIA — The state will award taxpayer-funded scholarships to 2,880 K-12 students for 2024-25, meaning just under half of the available slots could go unused for the program’s inaugural year, according to data the state Department of Education provided Wednesday to the SC Daily Gazette. The total of awarded scholarships means 64% of […]
North Carolina Republican lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation that will allow tens of thousands of additional students to get taxpayer funding to cover the cost of attending a private school this fall. The state Senate Appropriations Committee backed a bill Wednesday to provide an additional $463.5 million in private school voucher funding over the next two […]
I’ve read several (opinion columns) recently promoting “school choice” laws that would allow parents to send their children to private schools. They are engaging in a bit of linguistic camouflage to avoid the term “tax supported vouchers.” The simple fact is that parents in Texas have always had the choice to send their kids to […]
Apr. 10—Santa Fe could soon get legal protections for people with housing vouchers, following the introduction of an ordinance to prohibit landlords from discriminating on the basis of source of income. “This is the beginning of a conversation on how we deal with having minimum standards for renters in the city of Santa Fe,” said […]
Apr. 3—Cleveland County representatives are responding to the announcement that State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has created the Oklahoma State Department of Education Office of School Choice. The announcement came after the state received more than 30,000 submissions for the new parental choice tax credits. According to multiple reports, the program could eat […]