Ohio Is Funding the Construction of Private Religious Schools

[Intractable]

https://www.propublica.org/article/ohio-taxpayer-money-funding-private-religious-schools

While many states have recently enacted sweeping school voucher programs that give parents taxpayer money to spend on private school tuition for their kids, Ohio has cut out the middleman. Under a bill passed by its Legislature this summer, the state is now providing millions of dollars in grants directly to religious schools, most of them Catholic, to renovate buildings, build classrooms, improve playgrounds and more.

The goal in providing the grants, according to the measure’s chief architect, Matt Huffman, is to increase the capacity of private schools in part so that they can sooner absorb more voucher students.

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“This is new, dangerous ground, funding new voucher schools,” said Josh Cowen, a senior fellow at the Education Law Center and the author of a new book on the history of billionaire-led voucher efforts. For decades, churches have relied on conservative philanthropy to be able to build their schools, Cowen said, or they’ve held fundraising drives or asked their diocese for help.

They’ve never, until now, been able to build schools expressly on the public dime.

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1. Ridiculous. We need the satanic church to ask for equal funds.

The government should not be building religious schools!

[misanthrope]

4. As well as Jewish and Islamic schools

Every religion of every stripe should be shouting about getting their cut so it will reveal what's really going on here.

[OAITW r.2.0]

2. How did that happen? Oh yeah, Republicans are in charge.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Defunding public education?