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Amherst board hears statewide coalition presentation on EdChoice vouchers and pending lawsuit
Summary
A representative of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy urged the Amherst Exempted Village Board of Education to join litigation and public engagement against the expanded EdChoice voucher program, citing district-level student losses and a pending Franklin County lawsuit.
Eric Resnick, a member of the Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding steering committee, told the Amherst Exempted Village Board of Education that the district has lost hundreds of students to the EdChoice voucher program and urged the board to join a statewide legal and public-engagement campaign to challenge the expansion of vouchers.
Resnick said vouchers sent 37 Amherst students out of the district in fiscal 2021 and rose to 235 in fiscal 2024, and that "$1,295,320 of your taxpayer money walked out of this district to voucher private schools." He said the expansion has shifted voucher recipients from mostly low-income students to a majority who are not low income, adding that in one recent year 84.7% of vouchers in the district went to students who…
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