Up to date, in touch, and what you need to know

June 3, 2025

We appreciate the growing support from good Ohioans like you for our lawsuit, our public schools, our students, teachers, taxpayers and communities.

Each Tuesday, we send this email to you to keep you up-to-date on our lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the harmful EdChoice private school voucher scheme that is siphoning away $1 billion in tax dollars a year from our local public schools.

We also let you know about the new dangers to our communities being advanced by an extreme anti-public school majority in the Ohio House and Ohio Senate.

They are relentless.

Recently, anti-public school lawmakers have pushed to rip off the financial reserves paid for by local taxpayers to ensure local schools can put together five-year spending plans and avoid returning to voters with levies.

But that’s not all.

These same lawmakers want to make it more difficult for local schools to pass levies by raising the threshold from a simple majority of 50-plus one to 60 percent.

In 2023, many of these same lawmakers tried to amend the Ohio Constitution to raise the threshold for passing ballot initiatives to 60 percent and Ohio voters wholeheartedly and resoundingly rejected that nonsense.

It gets even worse in Columbus. These same lawmakers also want to prohibit public school committees from any contact with voters 30 days before an election in which a levy is on the ballot.

These are the same people who justify dark money in politics by claiming corporations should be allowed to secretly fund campaigns because their actions are protected by the free speech ideals in the First Amendment.

Hypocrites. Yes.

There is so much going on that you should be aware of that we can’t possibly put it all in a weekly email, but we do regularly post on these issues as they arise on our social media platforms.

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They don’t want you to be informed. Stay with us. We are going to keep putting a white hot spotlight on them.

Sincerely,

Vouchers Hurt Ohio