As Lawsuit Heads to OH Supreme Court, Plaintiffs are Confident

The Ohio constitution already mandates fair and adequate funding for public schools. Ohio legislators, a few years back, set up a Fair School Funding plan. Since then, GOP super-majorities in the General Assembly have chipped away at it. Creating vouchers to pay private school fees, at first for low-income families, and now for upper income parents as well, the GA has funded EdChoice and squeezed public schools. This has edged Ohio ever closer to full privatization, while at the same time forcing already struggling districts to ask for tax levy increases to keep up. EdChoice as currently done has been nixed by lower courts and is headed for the state supreme court. Read more here.