When we let vouchers drain our schools, it hurts us all.
August 12, 2025
Good Tuesday morning,
In state after state, where anti-public school zealots, backed by billionaires, have pushed to expand private school vouchers, grass roots coalitions like Vouchers Hurt Ohio have formed to fight back.
Wyoming is the latest state where vouchers have been ruled unconstitutional.
A Laramie County District Court Judge stopped the new Wyoming private school voucher scheme that planned to spend $30 million to provide $7,000 for each student to attend a private school or home school.
Like Ohio, Wyoming’s voucher program has no income limits for the recipients so millionaires are eligible for a voucher.
Wyoming’s program is a pittance compared to Ohio where our lawmakers have approved spending $1.5 billion in the next two school years on vouchers with zero financial or academic oversight.
The cases in Ohio and Wyoming are similar.
In Ohio, Franklin County Judge Jaiza Page ruled on June 24 the EdChoice private school voucher program is unconstitutional on three counts, including that the state is not funding our public schools at a constitutional level while siphoning away billions of dollars to private schools.
Also in Wyoming, the judge noted the voucher program allows public funding of private schools that have discriminatory admission policies.
In Ohio, Judge Page made the same legal point in her ruling and said school choice is “semantics,” because all the power is in the hands of the private school operators.
Private school operators use discriminatory admission policies to determine who gets in and who is left out, including race, religion, family income (millionaires please apply), disabilities and any other reason they may want to use to slam their doors shut.
Wyoming is the latest in a series of states ruling vouchers unconstitutional.
This is an historic time for public schools as we face a truly existential threat from the rise of private school vouchers.
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Sincerely,
Vouchers Hurt Ohio