Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed the state’s 2024-2025 budget Tuesday, expanding the already established school voucher program.
Under the 2024-2025 Ohio budget, private school students who are within 450% of the federal poverty level are eligible for taxpayer-funded vouchers, according to the Dayton Daily News. The $86 billion budget allots $1.5 billion to fund the state’s public schools.
“This budget is balanced, it provides tax cuts to working families, and it invests in economic and workforce development while promoting educational freedom with the expansion of the EdChoice Scholarship,” Republican state Lt. Governor Jon Husted said in a press release. “It was also great to see our efforts to require parental notification for social media included, along with much of our work to eliminate unnecessary and outdated regulations through CSI’s [Common Sense Initiative] Innovate the Code initiative.”
