State lawmakers are a lost cause

June 10, 2025

Earlier this year, House Speaker Matt Huffman said a constitutional funding formula for Ohio’s public schools was a “fantasy,” and “unsustainable.”

The House, under Huffman’s leadership, scrapped the Cupp Patterson Fair School Funding Plan while earmarking hundreds of millions of public tax dollars to private school operators.

As the two-year state budget moved to the Ohio Senate, public school advocates remained hopeful that lawmakers might come to their senses, recognize their constitutional duty to fund public schools, and restore the Fair School Funding Plan.

Fat chance.

Instead, state Sen. Jerry Cirino, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, told school supporters to get on board with their plan or “it could only get worse for you.”

These anti-public school lawmakers aren’t listening to reason. They want their way without static.

Cirino told cleveland.com he isn’t trying to chill free speech.

Right.

This is why we are suing the state, challenging the constitutionality of the harmful private school voucher program known as EdChoice.

If we could reason with lawmakers, we would.

But there is no reasoning with people like Jerry Cirino and Matt Huffman.

Here is the good news.

Vouchers are going on trial this year in Franklin County.

More good news.

More than 300 public schools have joined our lawsuit and more are joining every day.

Is your district part of our historic lawsuit? Check here.

If not, why not? Learn how to join here.

Sincerely,

Vouchers Hurt Ohio