Youngstown Plan enables all city students to attend private schools

By DENISE DICK

denise_dick@vindy.com

YOUNGSTOWN

Under the Youngstown Plan, all city school students will be eligible for the educational choice scholarship.

EdChoice enables students who attend a poor-performing school to attend a participating private school instead.

For the upcoming school year, East High and Harding, Martin Luther King and Williamson elementary schools and Youngstown Virtual Academy are EdChoice eligible.

The Youngstown Plan, approved by the state legislature and signed by Gov. John Kasich, however, makes the whole district eligible. Any student, regardless of the academic performance of the school where he or she is enrolled, may apply for the scholarship.

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