How Religious Schools Became a Billion-Dollar Drain on Public Education

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : To keep up enrollment, many were admitting more Black students, often from non-Catholic families.
56% : Now the benefits extend to more than a hundred and fifty thousand students across the state, costing taxpayers nearly a billion dollars, the vast majority of which goes to the Catholic and evangelical institutions that dominate the private-school landscape there.
55% : Proponents are pushing to add Texas, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and others -- and, with Donald Trump returning to the White House, they will likely have federal support.
50% : States that provide funds to families for homeschooling or education-related expenses are contending with reports that the money is being used to cover such unusual purchases as kayaks, video-game consoles, and horseback-riding lessons.
50% : (Private schools often reopened considerably faster than public schools.)
47% : "Most of all, they strategized about increasing state funding for Catholic schools.
36% : For the state government, there was an obvious risk to funding Catholic schools; the Ohio constitution says that "no preference shall be given, by law, to any religious society."

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