TOLEDO, Ohio — Thursday brought another delay in the state's EdChoice voucher program. After the Senate was left without a bill to vote on last week because of administrative and technical issues, the fate of …

Supporters, opponents doing what they can to make their voices stand out Thursday, Ohio’s governor made the announcement of a 3-week extended spring break for k-12 schools and now state House committees have been halted as well until April 3rd.

Current state of Ohio's EdChoice school voucher program: Mixed messages, frustrated parents, students left in limbo. Ohio’s EdChoice voucher program is exploding well beyond its original intent. The Ohio House unanimously rejected a Senate plan that would have shrunk the voucher program, known as EdChoice. Ohio legislative leaders have agreed on a compromise, still needing full votes, to halt making kids from more public schools eligible for EdChoice vouchers for … Among the bills referred to the House’s Primary and Secondary Education Committee, House Bill 587, sponsored by state Rep. Phil Robinson, D-Solon, and state Rep. John Patterson, D-Jefferson, would suspend EdChoice scholarships for the 2020-2021 school year.

The state House has passed a bill to replace the EdChoice voucher program, but a leading Democrat says the plan is far from perfect. An Ohio legislative committee adjourned without making a decision on changes to the state’s private school voucher program, but not before hearing about 50 hours of testimony over the course of a week. The scholarships start with the 2020-21 school year and give top priority to Ohio’s low-income students. In order to access your existing SAFE applications, please … The enrollment cap in Ohio’s Income-Based Scholarship Program is one area in which this program has improved.

Lawmakers in Columbus voted to freeze the enrollment for another 60 days until a solution is passed. With the Ohio Senate still planning to reject an overhaul to the Educational Choice Scholarship program, a renewed push for a revised but still intact EdChoice has begun.

It was limited to merely 2,000 full vouchers to kindergartners for the first year, but now, the number of scholarships is (along with the EdChoice Scholarship Program) capped at 60,000 vouchers and automatically grows to meet rising demand. The House signed off on Senate Bill 89, which creates the Buckeye Opportunity Scholarship. An employee of the Department of Education: The SAFE portal has now been integrated with myOhio.