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Expansion of Ohio's EdChoice Scholarship Program Will Create Educational Injuries

July 1, 2022

Amicus Brief supporting Columbus City Schools in CCS v. State of Ohio

Ohio’s expansion of the EdChoice Scholarship Program, through H.B. 110, threatens these core values, laws, and, most importantly – our system of common schools, itself. This Amicus brief explains how the EdChoice Scholarship Program directly and concretely creates educational injuries to the students of Ohio and its school districts, causing particular harm to the student Plaintiffs in this case. This brief focuses on four injuries created by H.B. 110, arguing that EdChoice: 1) exacerbates the underfunding of the public schools in Ohio, harming Ohio’s most economically disadvantaged students; 2) promotes racial segregation; 3) directly harms students with disabilities by removing crucial protections and services that students receive in public schools; and finally, 4) subjects LGBTQIA+ students and other students in protected classes to publicly funded discrimination. 

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