While school choice is a familiar concept in Ohio, I am often asked how Ohio stacks up versus other states and how widespread is school choice in Ohio. Well, to follow are a few statistics compiled by School Choice Ohio (www.scohio.org) which I found interesting and I hope you will to.
Did you know?
- Ohio has the fifth largest number (16,411) of publicly funded K-12 school choice scholarship recipients in the United States.
- Ohio is the state with the second largest number (3) of school choice programs in the nation. They are Ed Choice, Autism and Cleveland scholarships.
- Ohio, by enacting the Cleveland Scholarship in 1995, became the second state to enact a school choice scholarship program.
- Ohio has more students with autism receiving a scholarship (over 1,100) than any other state.
- Ohio has the fifth highest enrollment of students in public charter schools (over 80,000) in the country.
- Ohio is home to one of three chapters of the national Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO). The Ohio Chapter is based in Dayton.
- Ohio has the sixth highest number of privately-funded K-12 scholarships for families with financial need in the United States.
- An expansion of school choice in Ohio is represented by proposed legislation that seeks to provide K-12 scholarships to special needs children.
