COLUMBUS – Madison Local and Lucas Local School Districts are among 89 school districts, including the state’s largest, Columbus City Schools, that have passed resolutions to join Vouchers Hurt Ohio and the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy in School Funding to sue the state to fix the unconstitutional private school EdChoice voucher program, according to the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
“Madison Local and Lucas Local School Districts passing resolutions to join our lawsuit to provide fair and equitable funding for every student in Ohio is a great win for our coalition,” said William L. Phillis, Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding.
This is the same group that successfully sued the state in 1991 leading to the Ohio Supreme Court decision that Ohio’s school funding system unconstitutional.
“They understand that it’s simply a matter of time before the damaging effects of the private school voucher program will begin hurting their districts,” Phillis said. “There is currently universal voucher legislation being proposed, and the legislature shows no signs of slowing down or stopping in their goal to make every Ohio student voucher eligible.”
For school districts wanting to join the coalition, contact William L. Phillis, Executive Director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding. He can be reached at ohioeanda@sbcglobal.net.
“Private school vouchers have become a refund and a rebate program for too many parents who never had any plans to send their children to public schools,” Phillis said. “The Ohio Senate’s budget provides a 25 percent increase in funding for harmful private school vouchers to $7,500 per pupil while only giving public school students a 1.5 percent increase in funding.
“That’s wrong and forces local taxpayers to pay more in property taxes to fund schools like Madison and Lucas.”
