Ohio offers a new way to use public money for Christian schools. Opponents say it's unconstitutional

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump has cast school choice as a way to counter what he calls leftist indoctrination in public classrooms and is expected to seek a boost for the movement at the federal level.
53% : Scott DiMauro, president of the Ohio Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, said it's clear that expanded school choice is redirecting money from public education to private schools and their operators.
50% : Around the country, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools.
45% : Along with the school choice measures, the group lobbied for bills requiring public schools to keep transgender students out of girls' restrooms and girls' sports and to ban gender-affirming care.

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