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- Lots of voucher grouching over the weekend, including multiple different takes on the ridiculous notion that it’s a bad thing that there wasn’t a mass exodus of students out of school districts in the first year of near-universal voucher availability in Ohio. Our Aaron Churchill is the sole pro-voucher interviewee included in this Statehouse News piece, but his calm voice of reason is nearly drowned out by the sheer volume of nonsensical bellyaching that otherwise comprises the story. (Statehouse News Bureau, 6/17/24) The Spectrum, a local TV news show, includes School Choice Ohio boss Yitz Frank as its main voice of voucher support. But his calm analysis and serious answers are no match for “random outraged taxpayer” (who probably only fits two of those descriptors BTW), whose unanchored comments start at 11 and only go up from there. Too bad, Rabbi. (NBC4 News, Columbus, 6/16/24) Finally, the Dayton Daily News included the comments of exactly three legislators in today’s “leaders respond” article regarding EdChoice expansion data published last week—two haters and one supporter. (Dayton Daily News, 6/17/24)
- To all of those voucher grouchers complaining that EdChoice expansion did not result in a mass exodus of district school students to private schools, I have just two things to say. First is “Please read this Dispatch piece discussing how bad math and reading proficiency in Ohio’s public schools were in 2022, per the latest Kids Count Data Book.” (Columbus Dispatch, 6/17/24) Second is “Just wait.”
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