Before he retired in 2023 as the director of the Education Law Center, David Sciarra released a report defining the widely held principles of adequate and equitably distributed public school funding, as defined by the constitutions of the states: “Today, there is broad agreement that the education guaranteed by state constitutions must be one that […]| janresseger
Article VI, Section 2 of the Ohio Constitution defines the state’s responsibility to provide a strong system of public education as an essential provision of the social contract: “The General Assembly shall make such provisions, by taxation, or otherwise, as, with the income arising from the school trust fund, will secure a thorough and efficient […]| janresseger
In the last week of June, two important events happened almost simultaneously in Ohio: A district court in Columbus found the state’s EdChoice voucher program unconstitutional, and the state …| janresseger
ALERT 2: When the massive tax and reconciliation bill passed and was signed into law, the bill established a different version of federal vouchers. ALERT, Friday, June 27, 2025 : Ranking member of…| janresseger
The NY Times’ Dana Goldstein summarizes President Trump’s two executive orders last week that would shape federal K-12 public education policy: “On Wednesday evening, Mr. Trump si…| janresseger
Andy Brenner, the Chair of the Ohio Senate Education Committee, is once again pushing the Ohio Legislature to pass an old fashioned, test-and-punish school accountability bill, Senate Bill 295, in …| janresseger
In The New and Radical School Voucher Push Is Quietly Unwinding Two Centuries of of U.S. Education Tradition, Tulane University Professor Doug Harris reflects profoundly on the meaning of todayR…| janresseger
Ohio’s fiscal troubles certainly have been exacerbated by the hugely expensive universal EdChoice Expansion voucher expansion now projected to divert over a billion dollars in the current fis…| janresseger
