By Nya Brunson / Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Central State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. Higher education institutions across the United States are getting an increase in attention. In Ohio and many other states across the country, there has been an increase in restrictions on higher education and what can be taught in these institutions. .
Applications for the state s new private-tuition voucher program are double what lawmakers anticipated. Critics of the plan say it will divert even more money than they anticipated away from Iowa s traditional public-school students. When lawmakers legalized Iowa s Education Savings Accounts, they anticipated about 14,000 families would apply for the scholarship, which makes more than $7,600 available for parents to pay for private school tuition. .