School Choice in Ohio and a Talk with Senator Louis Blessing III

School Choice Ohio was launched shortly after the creation of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program. Since that time, School Choice Ohio and its allies have continued to expand opportunities that empower families to choose their child’s school. At this moment, over 60% of Ohio families have access to a state funded scholarship.

While there has been much success, and Ohio is among the nation’s leaders in empowering families, there is much more to go. Impediments to expanding parental power over education are political, sociological, and practical.

SB 242 is Legislation that requires cash to be accepted as a form of payment at retail merchants. We are slowly moving to a cashless society, and the ramifications of that are profound. As was seen in Canada, governments can and will work with the financial and tech sectors to shut citizens out of the economy if they deem it necessary. The good news is that SB 242 has the support of groups on the left who also have privacy concerns and issues moving to a completely cashless society. The bill represents an innovative, bipartisan approach to pushing back against increasingly technocratic governance. Senator Louis Blessing III joins EmpowerU to discuss the topic that is currently under review by the Ohio General Assembly.