A lawsuit has been filed in the Ohio Supreme Court by families who are affected by the legislature鈥檚 recently imposed 60-day moratorium on vouchers for the state鈥檚 EdChoice school voucher program.
Aaron Baer with says he represents parents and schools who have been harmed by the law pushing the EdChoice window from Feb 1 to April 1. Baer says it鈥檚 also unenforceable because it lacks an emergency clause that would allow it take effect right away.
鈥淭he manner in which they addressed this is unconstitutional. And what they did, in particular, is hurting a lot of families and it should not have come to this.鈥�
Baer also said the delay by the legislature is a hardship for families who have planned to enroll their kids in the program.
鈥淭hese families and these schools do not have multi-million dollar taxpayer funded budgets. They are living check to check, year by year, month by month.鈥�
The House and Senate passed the .
You can hear more about what led to the situation with the voucher program .
