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Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers for the 2025 fiscal year, the second full year with near-universal school vouchers.

The total amount for Ohio’s five private school voucher programs was $1.09 billion, according to data from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce . Nearly half of the money ($492.8 million) was from Education Choice Expansion vouchers.

The $1.09 billion number is higher than the estimated $1.05 billion the nonpartisan Ohio Legislative Service Commission predicted when it came to the scholarship programs.

“The thing that we’re concerned about is it seems like the EdChoice vouche

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