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(The Center Square) – Parents officially have a bill of rights in Ohio, requiring school systems to notify them of students’ health and well-being, along with any instructional materials with ...
(The Center Square) – It took late-night work on the last day of the legislative session for Ohio’s Republican-majority legislature to pass the Parents Bill of Rights after more than a year ...
H.B. 8, known to proponents as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights,” requires public school staff to inform a student’s parents if the student identifies as transgender or gender-nonconforming.
The typical practice at that time was to assign children to the public school nearest their home. Friedman proposed that parents should be able to receive education funds in the form of school vouchers, which would allow them to choose their children's schools from among public, private, and religious and non-religious options. [2]
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002), was a 5–4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld an Ohio program that used school vouchers.The Court decided that the program did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as long as parents using the program were allowed to choose among a range of secular and religious schools.
Education in Ohio is provided by both public and private schools, colleges, and universities. Ohio's system of public education is outlined in Article VI of the state constitution, and in Title XXXIII of the Ohio Revised Code. Ohio University, the first university in the Northwest Territory, was also the first public institution in Ohio.
Manning said at a hearing on May 21 that the aim is that parents will be more informed about the education their students will receive in different schools. Lawmakers want accountability for ...
In the upcoming school year, LifeWise will be serving nearly 50,000 students in more than 500 schools, across 27 states. Parents should have the freedom to choose religious instruction for their ...