Ohio News

• Education
  • A Booming Business Serves Special Needs Families, Business Week, January 9, 2009
• EdChoice
  • Vouchers available to some Middletown students, Middletown Journal, January 14, 2009
  • EdChoice option is tuition-free, Marion Star, January 14, 2009
  • Four City Schools Designated For EdChoice Program, WMFD TV Mansfield, December 30, 2008
  • The EdChoice Scholarship program provides school choice for children attending consistently under-performing public schools.
• Autism Scholarship Program
  • The Autism Scholarship Program gives parents with children who have special education needs the opportunity to attend a school outside of their original district.
• Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program
  • The Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program gives parents of K-8 graders school choice through a lottery system – one preferential to low-income families.
• Charter Schools in Ohio
  • Ohio enacted a charter school law in 1997. Since then, the number of charter schools has grown to three hundred fifteen and these schools currently educate nearly seventy-seven thousand students (76,967).
• Home Schooling
  • Parents can file for exemption from the school system if he or she chooses to home school a child.
• Virtual Schools
  • Ohio Virtual Academy
  • Online school keeps kids in line - The Cincinnatti Enquirer