📣 Important Legal Win for Public Education in Ohio
The Franklin County Court of Common Pleas has ruled in favor of public school districts in the case Columbus City School District et al. v. State of Ohio, challenging the constitutionality of the EdChoice voucher program.
This ruling confirms what we’ve long said: Ohio’s voucher system is undermining public education, draining resources from already underfunded schools and funneling taxpayer money—often to religious institutions with little to no public accountability.
The court sided with plaintiffs on multiple counts, including:
• The creation of multiple, unequal systems of education—violating Ohio’s constitutional obligation to maintain a “thorough and efficient” public school system.
• The misuse of state school funds to support religious education, a direct violation of Ohio’s constitutional ban on public support for religious or sectarian institutions.
• The increased racial and economic segregation exacerbated by the voucher system.
This ruling is a powerful legal rebuke to the coordinated, Christian nationalist campaign to defund, destabilize, and dismantle public education from within.
🔍 What it means for us:
Voucher programs like EdChoice aren’t just bad policy—they are unconstitutional. When lawmakers push for “school choice,” they are often disguising a larger agenda: redirecting public dollars to private religious indoctrination, all while leaving our most vulnerable students behind.
📢 The Secular Education Association will continue to push back against these attacks on public education—whether they come through vouchers, religious release time, chaplain bills, or attempts to inject conservative Christian doctrine into public schools.
✅ Join us. Organize with us. Support the separation of church and state.
Because public funds belong in public schools.
https://pfps.org/assets/uploads/Columbus_City_School_Dist._v._State_Decision_on_MSJ.pdf
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