Why we are challenging EdChoice Vouchers in court

December 4, 2024

Senate President Matt Huffman, with the help of Americans For Prosperity, is going to be House Speaker Matt Huffman beginning in January, 2025.

Huffman will undoubtedly serve four two-year terms from 2025 to 2033 as Speaker because he understands as well as anyone how to manipulate the levers of government in his favor.

Huffman is not only a champion for private school vouchers. He has taken the extraordinary step of funneling public tax dollars into private school construction and repair.

Voters don’t like vouchers. Voters don’t like their tax dollars going to private, most often, religious schools for brick and mortar buildings.

The majority of voters would like to see their tax dollars invested in their local public schools.

Huffman doesn’t listen to voters. Not now. Not in the foreseeable future.

He told the Columbus Dispatch at the Statehouse: “We can kind of do what we want.”

And he does.

We know we do not stand a chance in the legislature. We know the governor for the next two years, at least, will go along with Huffman on expanding universal vouchers.

So we are suing. We are challenging the constitutionality of the private school voucher program, known as EdChoice, on five counts, and each count has been accepted for trial by Franklin County Judge Jaiza Page.

Vouchers will go on trial in 2025.

The Ohio Constitution is clear on this issue.

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