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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.
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.
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According to The Organisation Internationale pour le Droit à l'Education et la Liberté d'Enseignement (OIDEL; English: International Organization for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education [51]) the right to education is a human right and parents should be able to choose a school for their children without discrimination on the basis ...
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Historically, Ohio's public schools have been funded with a combination of local property tax revenue and money from the state. [5] This led to disparities in the quality of education in more affluent districts, where high property values led to greater funding, and urban and rural districts, [ 1 ] where low property values left students with ...
A 2016 survey from the National Household Education Surveys Program reported by the Coalition for Responsible Home Education found that these are the top reasons parents choose to homeschool: A ...