The state and a coalition of over 130 school districts are awaiting decision by Franklin County judge on whether a nearly year-old lawsuit challenging Ohio’s private school vouchers will be dismissed or can continue toward trial.
spanning 11 years in the 1990s and early 2000s that resulted in the Ohio Supreme Court declaring the state’s public school funding system unconstitutional. The anti-voucher coalition is led by William Phillis, who led a coalition of plaintiffs in DeRolph.
“And if Plaintiffs want to change Ohio’s policy approach to eliminate choice for parents and students, they need to ask the People elected, the democratic representatives in the General Assembly, – not the courts – to do that,” Parental choice creates a heightened accountability “because a school that does not satisfy its customers will lose students and even shut down, unlike public schools,” the state says. “The strength of that incentive – that customers are not captive – is shown by the fact that now that Plaintiff Districts face a form of it, they do not like it and have sued to get rid of it.”
A Jan. 7 motion said Ellis became passionate about keeping his children out of Akron’s public schools after his stepson’s experience at Kenmore High School. “Kenmore is an academically low-performing public high school, and students there encounter constant fighting, rampant drug use, and widespread truancy,”
In addition to offering vouchers in the boundaries of low-performing schools, children who are homeschooled can get them too. Vouchers also are offered to families that are medium- and low-income that have never tried public schools. All of this has resulted in a decrease in funding for public schools, the plaintiffs say. One of the examples plaintiffs provide is the Fair School Funding Plan, an overhaul in education funding passed in the 2021 budget bill, which was trying to comply with the Ohio Supreme Court’s rulings from the early 2000s that public school funding was unconstitutional.
The Fair School Funding Plan funds schools by looking at local capacity – which means examining a combination of the incomes of residents in the district, plus property tax values. If the total local capacity is relatively small, the state provides payments to increase the funding, the plaintiffs argue.
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