For the second year in a row, Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers, this time for the 2026 fiscal year.
The total amount for Ohio’s five private school voucher programs was $1.173 billion, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce. Nearly half of the money ($ 532.8 million) was from the Education Choice Expansion vouchers. This is the third full year with near-universal school vouchers.
“It’s frustrating to see this amount of money going to vouchers when our public schools still are not fully and fairly funded,” said Melissa Cropper, president of the Ohio Federation of Teachers…