Alissa Widman Neese and Craig McDonald
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Licking Heights Local Schools has joined several other districts to sue the state over its EdChoice school voucher system
The program, which allows families to use public funds to send children to private schools, violates the Ohio Constitution, the group Vouchers Hurt Ohio contends. It argues that elected officials are failing to to meet their constitutional duty to fund a “thorough and adequate” system of public schools. We are a consortium fighting to ensure the state of Ohio acts within its own legal bounds Columbus Schools board member Michael Cole said. “To ensure that public school districts … are not again harmed by how dollars are siphoned off to accommodate, illegally and unfairly, other schools.”