333 and Growing!

August 18, 2026

Good Tuesday morning,

Our coalition challenging the constitutionality of the EdChoice voucher system is now up to 333 public school districts and growing.

You can check to see if your district is part of our historic lawsuit here on our interactive map on our vouchershurtohio.com website.

Bookmark this page because we’re going to be adding information to it as our lawsuit progresses.

We believe each public school district in Ohio should be standing up for public schools, students, educators, local taxpayers and their communities by uniting around the lawsuit.

The EdChoice voucher system is taking away $1 billion a year from public schools at a time when the same pro-voucher lawmakers are shortchanging local schools.

The state’s share of paying for local schools will drop from 47 percent in 1999, meaning almost one of every two dollars spent on public schools came from Columbus, down to 32 percent in the upcoming school year, or two in every three dollars being local funding.

If you’ve ever wondered why local property taxes have soared, you can thank lawmakers in Columbus for neglecting local schools for nearly a quarter century.

So our challenge is not only to preserve public schools, but to protect local taxpayers who are put in the position of either supporting additional levies or watching their schools make tough decisions like cutting teachers, classroom opportunities, imposing pay-to-participate fees and other measures that undermine our communities.

Meanwhile, the EdChoice private school voucher program has exploded. There are no income limits for families.

The results are more than 90 percent of the families taking vouchers already had their children enrolled in private schools so this is a refund or rebate for them worth up to $6,166 for K-8 and $8,408 for high school vouchers.

And a boondoggle for the private, mostly religious schools, that are making the real choice in education by deciding who gets in and who does not with litmus tests for students that include family income, race, religion, athletic ability or disabilities.

This is why we’re suing and this is why we’re asking school districts to stand up for communities by joining our lawsuit.

You can help. Send an email to wphillis@gmail.com and we will get in touch with you so you can start working in your school district and your community to fight back against the harmful EdChoice private school voucher system and stand up for your students, educators and taxpayers.

Sincerely,

Vouchers Hurt Ohio