School choice gives families options, letting them pick the best fit for their kids, on the backs of taxpayers, but one logistical reality rarely makes it into the conversation: The cost to taxpayers of busing all those kids to distant private schools.
Education reporter Laura Hancock examined work by a state work group studying Ohio’s school transportation crisis, but Today in Ohio podcast hosts say the state created the crisis by generously subsidizing private schools.
“The more choices the state is creating, the more complicated and expensive it becomes to physically get students where they’ve chosen to go,” host Leila Atassi said on Monday’s episode…