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The document argues that universal availability through EdChoice Expansion accelerates privatization, shifts roughly 65,000 new vouchers to private-school families, and intensifies inequities. 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Ohio has three general education voucher programs – EdChoice, EdChoice Expansion, and the Cleveland program – that together provide a publicly funded voucher for any Ohio family, regardless of income.  \nThe state spent a combined $731 million for the 2023-24 school year on these three programs, up from $400 million the previous year.1 Two other programs provide publicly funded vouchers for students with special needs; together they cost the state $237 million for the 2023-24 school year. The governor’s budget for the coming biennium proposes to spend more than $1.25 billion to fund all five programs for the 2026-27 school year, while reducing funding for traditional public schools.2  \nOhio lawmakers drove this increase in the last state budget by making vouchers universally available to all Ohioans except Cleveland residents through EdChoice Expansion. This destructive push to privatize education harms public schools and the 90% of students and families in our state who rely on them. Households with incomes up to 450% of poverty – a family of four with a $140,400 annual income – qualify for the full value of $6,166 for K-8 and $8,408 for high school. Above 450%, the public subsidy gradually drops, with even the richest Ohioans still receiving 10% of the full voucher.3  \nOhio lawmakers say the state can’t afford to assist more families with essentials like food assistance (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and school lunches), childcare, and healthcare for kids. Yet, as Figure 1 shows, they have chosen to prioritize private school tuition assistance with no income cutoff.  \n1 Ohio Department of Education and Workforce (DEW), Nonpublic Data Portal, Scholarship Payments, retrieved March 2025.  \n2 Ohio Legislative Service Commission spreadsheet,“HB96-136_IN CompSummary 2.11.25.”  \n3 DEW, EdChoice Expansion Income Eligibility Requirements for 2024-2025.  \nFigure 1  \nLegislators strictly limit assistance for basic needs, issue vouchers at all income levels  \nAnnual income cap for a family of 4 to access public services  \nBecause of the radical change legislators made in the last state budget, thousands of households already sending kids to private school without help from the state received these vouchers. In the 2023-24 school year, Ohio gave out nearly 69,000 new EdChoice Expansion vouchers, but private school enrollment grew by just 3,700 students.4 This means that some 65,000 vouchers went to those private school families.  \nThat same year, participants in the EdChoice Expansion program became wealthier and whiter: only 17% of users in 2023-24 qualified as low-income compared to 67% the previous year.5 The number of white participants in the Expansion program more than quadrupled in the 2023-24 school year.6  \nThe percentages of new and renewing voucher recipients and those qualifying as lowincome stayed relatively stable from year to year for the original EdChoice program and the Cleveland voucher.7  \nPrivate schools are concentrated in or near urban areas, siphoning funds away from public schools – especially those in rural areas where few, if any, nonpublic schools exist – and into the budgets and endowments of private schools.  \n4 DEW, Enrollment Data, retrieved March 2024.  \n5 DEW, Nonpublic Data Portal, Scholarship Paid Participants, retrieved February 2025.  \n6 Same as above.  \n7 Same as above.  \nFigure 2  \nVoucher schools are concentrated in or near Ohio’s urban centers  \nVoucher schools by Ohio Senate District Voucher schools by Ohio House District  \nClick here to access interactive versions of the above maps. (Use the tabs at the top left of the graphic to switch between Senate and House district maps.)  \nAllowing vouchers to extract more public dollars from the state b","cbCaiomqy2ulm2s7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiomqy2ulm2s7","pdf",270369,"English","# Public funding and voucher expansion in Ohio\n## Voucher costs and future budget proposals\n## Universal eligibility and distribution effects\n## Student demographics and participation changes\n## Geographic concentration of voucher schools\n## Community and school district impacts\n## Concerns about private voucher schools","[{\"question\":\"How do Ohio’s general education voucher programs work?\",\"answer\":\"Ohio uses public funds to subsidize tuition at eligible private K-12 schools. The voucher programs cover families regardless of income eligibility rules defined by each program.\"},{\"question\":\"What scale of funding do the document cite for 2023-24 and proposed 2026-27?\",\"answer\":\"The state spent a combined $731 million in 2023-24 on three general education voucher programs, and the governor’s budget proposes more than $1.25 billion for all five programs in 2026-27.\"},{\"question\":\"What criticisms does the document raise about voucher schools?\",\"answer\":\"It argues voucher schools can reject certain students, price out families, operate without transparency or accountability to state standards, and may include religious education as a foundational mission.\"}]","Public money for public schools - Ohio’s voucher programs siphon funds, weaken public schools | PDF",1792060843]