Public ed coalition plans lawsuit to try to kill EdChoice vouchers [View all]

The education coalition behind the case that successfully argued Ohio’s public school system was unconstitutional says they’ll head back to the courts to eliminate the EdChoice private school voucher system.

Bill Phillis, executive director for the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding, said the approval of the fair school funding plan, even in it’s two-year abbreviated form, “provides at least a hint of the promise that we are moving in the right direction.”

But the continuance and expansion of the EdChoice vouchers leaves education in the state as an unconstitutional, inaccessible system, causing the need for a new lawsuit, he said.

“I want Ohioans to know and internalize that the state legislature is responsible for a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state,” Phillis said in a press call on Monday.

Read more: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/08/03/public-ed-coalition-plans-lawsuit-to-try-to-kill-edchoice-vouchers/