Ohio joined the growing number of states passing pro-school choice legislation by expanding its voucher program to more families.
“Ohio is the eighth state to go all-in on school choice in just two years,” Corey DeAngelis, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, told Fox News. “The dam is breaking for the government school monopoly.”
The $86 billion budget that Gov. Mike DeWine signed Tuesday included pro-school choice policies, joining Arizona, West Virginia, Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida and Oklahoma, which passed similar legislation in the past two years.
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School choice has become increasingly popular in states around the country, recently being passed in Arizona, Utah, Iowa and, most recently, Ohio. (iStock)
The funding a family receives depends on income, though scholarships won’t drop below 10% of the full scholarship amount, according to Dayton Daily News.
“Now Ohio joins the growing list of states that are empowering all families with school choice by making every K-12 student eligible for an opportunity scholarship,” Jason Bedrick, a research fellow at the Center for Education Policy at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News.
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Currently, the EdChoice program costs about an annual $350 million and is distributed to more than 60,000 students, according to Ohio’s Office of Budget and Management.
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School vouchers were first available in Ohio in Cleveland in 1996 then expanded statewide in 2005, according to the Ohio Department of Education’s website.
