The private school voucher program hurt Ohio, hurts taxpayers and hurts our schools.

In Indiana, a failing charter school is trying to convert to a private school because vouchers pay more and there is less accountability.
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Anti-public school lawmakers give $1 billion to private school and wealthy families and shortchange our local public schools that are the heart of our communities. It’s not fair. Learn how we’re fighting back at vouchershurtohio.com

Private schools may select their students; no special-needs students should bother to apply. - Jeanne Pritchard, Medina cleveland.com/letters/2024/0…

When we use taxpayer dollars to pay for private school vouchers, public schools, students, teachers and taxpayers suffer.

Most people who take advantage of vouchers have never had their kids in public school to begin with, added Julie Larrea Borst, executive director of Save Our Schools NJ Community Organizing. “So you’re just giving a tax break to wealthy people.”
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State Sen. Andrew Brenner chairs the Ohio Senate Education Committee, but he is no friend of public schools.
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When we let vouchers drain funds from our public schools, our kids suffer. Students don’t have the resources they need to succeed and we are all hurt as a result.

Vouchers paid for a $15,000 wristwatch, $5,000 massage chairs, $24,000 golf simulators in Arizona and the corrupt state board of education said it was okay. Where is $1 billion in Ohio being spent?
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Ohio is fast becoming the Wild West for vouchers. The program has grown from $42 million in 2008 to $1 billion this year.

We see a pattern here in Texas, Tennessee, Ohio and elsewhere. Billionaires are bullying voucher-resistant lawmakers.
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$1 billion boondoggle for private school operators and voucher money is not audited and no academic accountability for the voucher schools.

Another secret recording reveals how lawmakers are facing pressure to send tax dollars to exclusive private school vouchers.
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More than 75 people packed a library last night to learn how Vouchers Hurt Upper Arlington public schools.
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper understands the threat of vouchers on steroids. Gov. DeWine? As clueless as Mr. Magoo.
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Choice? What a lie. “If families have visions of attending those sorts of marquee schools with these vouchers, I don’t think that is going to happen.”
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