Senate President Matt Huffman, R-Lima, during the Ohio Senate session, February 28, 2024, at the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo by Graham Stokes for Ohio Capital Journal. Republish photo only with original article.)
The groups seeking to eliminate a private school voucher program in Ohio have backed off of an effort to get the state’s Senate president to speak on the matter.
Attorneys for Ohio public school districts and anti-voucher coalitions notified the Franklin County Common Pleas Court that they had withdrawn a subpoena for Senate President Matt Huffman, and cancelled a written deposition planned for the legislative leader.
Attorney Mark Wallach of the Cleveland law firm McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., who represented the public school groups and districts in court documents, did not give any further reasoning behind the withdrawal in his notification to the court.
William Phillis, executive director of the Ohio Coalition for Equity & Adequacy of School Funding, one of the parties in the lawsuit, said after attorneys reviewed the data and documents provided through the discovery process, they concluded “whatever else (Huffman) had to say wouldn’t affect our case.”