Ohio Gov. John Kasich placed two expansions of the state’s EdChoice voucher program within his $15.1 billion budget proposal for 2014-2015, which would increase state funding to schools over the next two years.
“If a school consistently fails to provide their students with the basic reading skills they need to succeed, we want to make sure that parents have alternatives,” said Jim Lynch, an advisor in Ohio’s Office of Budget and Management, in an email.
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Vouchers also stave off middle-class flight to the suburbs, Stevenson said.
“If we didn’t have the option of EdChoice, we would have moved out of here. We would have left the community we loved,” she said. “It’s not just a school program. It’s a community program. [Families] are able to stay in the community they want to be in, and can pour dollars into the economic situation, and mentor their neighbors, and be part of the community that is trying to thrive and not die away.”
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