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William L. Phillis

William L. Phillis is the executive director of The Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy of School Funding. Previously he was Assistant Superintendent Ohio Department of Education of Public Instruction from 1976 to 1992.

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Are vouchers a constitutional entitlement?

By: - February 28, 2020

During testimony before the Ohio General Assembly Conference Committee on SB 9 (the voucher deal) most of the pro-voucher witnesses claimed they, as taxpayers, are legally entitled to school vouchers. Their line of argument is that they are entitled to vouchers because some of their tax money is sent to the public common school system, […]