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Paul Chambers🚧

@gwaldby I hope you can kill it.

Ohio is spending over a billion dollars a year now on its voucher program, trying to include infrastructure and building grants now, too. I post about it under . Meanwhile, public schools' finances are suffering, and they are getting ready to significantly slash their budgets. Ohio pays tuitions, disguised as scholarships, to these schools, many non-chartered, unaccredited with little oversight. Anyone can say they are a church, open a k-12 school and start taking in over $8K per year per student in taxpayer money. To boot, public schools are funded based on the number of students they have enrolled.

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Paul Chambers🚧

@coolpuppy I see a multifaceted power struggle. The fundamentalist Baptist, esp the Baptist Briders, and Southern Baptists have been in a holy war forever. @Crell

Slightly off-topic, at one point there were more than 100 “Baptist Brider” and Landmarkist private schools getting more than $8000 per student per year in 's school voucher program, which gave schools over a Billion dollars last year in tax payer money. I don't know where that stands this school term. I've posted about them under tag

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Paul Chambers🚧

Trump order prioritizes school choice and vouchers, which Ohio has been expanding for decades

In 2024, Ohio spent more than a billion taxpayers' dollars on EdChoice for 82,946 students. Most went to religious schools, K–12 many non-chartered church affiliated schools, who push their doctrine. There is very little oversight in curriculum and staffing

They want to expand the program to allow for building and infrastructure grants to these outfits.

Meanwhile, Republicans plan on slashing public-school funding.

Also, Ohio property taxes significantly fund schools. I don't want my property tax to go to a taxpayer funded k-12 school which teaches woman to obey and be submissive to their husbands.

An actual lesson plan below. Many use ACE, Accelerated Christain Education, comic book style, learn as you go, style booklets.

In Ohio, 275 independent fundamentalist Baptist churches operate more than a hundred k-12 schools, usually out of their church facilities and receive taxpayer funding. These aren't your average Baptists, not even Southern Baptists. Sorry if you are one, but they aren't.

Taxpayers are paying for lesson plans, like the one below.

More on ACE:(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelera)
Another post of mine.

See my posts under tag.

Image2 A pop-up EdChoice K-12 school in a church: Christian School, K-12, Training the next generation of Christian Leaders.

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01

cartoon for handwriting Wife asks for a new dress husband denies her wife ask is she can add ribbon husband thanks her for being submissive Scripture ref re Esther being submissive to Mordecai
Christian School, k-12 Training the next generations of Christian Leaders.
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Paul Chambers🚧

2/ Follow up ~ After backlash, Ohio GOP split over cutting public school funding

Following WCPO's deep dive (Post 1 in this thread) into an effort by Republican leadership in Ohio to cut public school spending, which resulted in the lawmakers facing backlash, half a dozen GOP legislators personally reached out to WCPO, vowing to protect K-12 education.

Those six, and at least 15 others WCPO have spoken to in recent weeks, say that one of their main priorities is supporting public schools.

This comes as Gov. Mike DeWine would not commit to supporting the current bipartisan funding formula, telling me that "difficult choices" will need to be made.

It's worthy to note, Ohio GOP gave over US One Billion Ohio tax dollars to private schools, mostly religious church based, grants in 2024, for k-12 education alone.

wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio

WCPO 9 Cincinnati · After backlash, Ohio GOP split over cutting public school fundingBy Morgan Trau
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Paul Chambers🚧

Ohio GOP threatens to cut school funding, calling spending 'unsustainable'

Meanwhile, Ohio gave one billion dollars in 2024 for private school vouchers, mostly unaccredited church schools with very little oversight or curriculum mandates and oversight

wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio

WCPO 9 Cincinnati · Ohio GOP threatens to cut school funding, calling spending 'unsustainable'By Morgan Trau
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Paul Chambers🚧

Ohio adds $4 million to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce budget to defend against private school voucher lawsuit.

Last year, Ohio spent a billion dollars of taxpayers money to pay for 130,000 to attend private schools, mostly religious, church owned schools.

The state is facing a challenge to the constitutionality of vouchers, which the state uses to pay for private school tuition. The lawsuit was filed in 2022.

daytondailynews.com/local/ohio

Dayton Daily News · Ohio adds $4 million to defend against private school voucher lawsuitsBy Eileen McClory, Avery Kreemer
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Paul Chambers🚧

AG sues Columbus City Schools for breaking Ohio law by not busing non-public school students

Ohio Republicans want Ohioans to pay even more for their private school voucher scheme, now with busing students to those schools.

Many of these schools are unaccredited, church schools, many attached physically to their churches, in space used for church services and Sunday School, esp the independent Baptist franchise with their accelerated Christian edu.

statenews.org/government-polit

STATE NEWS · AG sues Columbus City Schools for breaking Ohio law by not busing non-public school studentsBy Karen Kasler
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Paul Chambers🚧

@jbe To add insult to injury, A bill to expand the school voucher system and provide more money to has been proposed in as the Department of was investigating a Nazi scandal

🔗 As some lawmakers debate Nazi home-schooling scandal, others propose expansion to school voucher program
news5cleveland.com/news/politi

News 5 Cleveland WEWSAs some lawmakers debate Nazi home schooling scandal, others propose expansion to school voucher programA bill to expand the school voucher system and provide more money to home-schoolers has been proposed in Ohio as the Dept. of Education is investigating a Nazi home-schooling scandal.
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Paul Chambers🚧

@TexasObserver

Some Ohio lawmakers propose EdChoice expansion amid Nazi home-schooling scandal

A bill to expand the school voucher system and provide more money to has been proposed in as the Department of is investigating a Nazi scandal

also gives low quality church schools taxpayer money. Say you're a church, become a school. No regulations to be a minister or start a church in Ohio. Popup schools & churches

news5cleveland.com/news/politi

News 5 Cleveland WEWSAs some lawmakers debate Nazi home schooling scandal, others propose expansion to school voucher programA bill to expand the school voucher system and provide more money to home-schoolers has been proposed in Ohio as the Dept. of Education is investigating a Nazi home-schooling scandal.
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