School Vouchers

A suit has been filed in the Ohio Supreme Court by families who are affected by the legislature’s recently imposed 60-day moratorium on vouchers for the…

The GOP-controlled Ohio General Assembly last week was on the way to missing its deadline to head off an explosion in the number of vouchers for K-12…

As the clock ticked down to a February 1 deadline for lawmakers to make a change to Ohio’s private school voucher program, the Ohio Senate approved a…

The Ohio House has voted on a plan to move the start of Ohio's private school voucher application process back to April 1. The vote came just hours before…

In this week's episode of Snollygoster, Ohio's politics podcast from WOSU, hosts Mike Thompson and Steve Brown discuss the effort to get a higer minumum…

The state legislature is racing against a Saturday deadline that would automatically – and massively – expand the number of public schools where students…

Talks on a deal to stop a huge increase in the number of Ohio public school buildings where students would qualify for private school vouchers are…

Republican leaders in the Senate have approved a deal that would stop a dramatic increase in the number of public school buildings where students will be…

State lawmakers are expected to vote on a compromise that could stop a huge increase in the number of Ohio public school buildings where students will be…

Since 2006, Ohio has provided publicly funded vouchers for students to attend private or religious schools. Now the number of students eligible to get those vouchers is about to see a huge spike. This has educators and legislators in Columbus scrambling. “Morning Edition” host Amy Eddings spoke with ideastream education reporter Jenny Hamel about the possible expansion of the EdChoice voucher program. How does this work and what does it do?