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Ohio paying more students to attend private schools than ever before − thanks to a change in law and concerted marketing from non-public schools. As Ohio's private school vouchers swell, who is ...
Ohio's Senate President says school choice only exists if students have access to a private or charter school that can take them. Every Ohio child will be eligible for a school voucher but many ...
In Canton City Schools, 93% of voucher students are not low-income qualified. Low income is considered to be at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. For a family of four, that's a household ...
Nearly 24,000 children received scholarships in the 2011–2012 school year. The program started in 1998, reaching over 77,500 taxpayers, providing over $500 million in scholarship money for children at private schools across the state. [19]
Those vouchers were worth about US$190 in 1998, and data shows that matriculation fees and other monthly expenses incurred by voucher students attending private schools averaged about US$340 in 1998, so a majority of voucher recipients supplemented the voucher with personal funds.
AFCGF supports the creation and expansion of school voucher, corporate tax credit, and other school choice programs. The organization is headquartered in Dallas, Texas , is designated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and receives its funding through private individual and foundation donations.
Advocates for school choice pitch vouchers as a way to give students in low-performing schools a way out – and, increasingly, to give parents control over what their children are taught.
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.