This school year, the private school voucher program grew from roughly 24,000 students to more than 90,000, and the final numbers won’t be known until sometime in July.

Most of the families taking the vouchers, according to media reports, are well-to-do. Even millionaires and billionaires qualify for a partial voucher.

And most of the families are not moving their children from public schools to private schools, a pretense for creating the program years ago. 

No, most families never had any intention of enrolling their children in public schools.

So Ohio is now expected to spend nearly $1 billion in tax dollars for vouchers and the program is only going to grow.

Now, there are a number of reasons Betsy DeVos, the Koch Family, ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council), and their in-state front groups the Buckeye Institute, the Freedom Foundation and the Center for Christian Virtue support the rapid, unrestrained explosive growth of private school vouchers.

Vouchers are part of their anti-public school, anti-union privatization agenda.

They don’t like unions so they want tax dollars to go to non-union private schools.

They don’t like public pensions so they want tax dollars to go to private schools whose employees do not pay into the state pension systems.

Ohio is not alone. Across the country, the privatization crowd in state after state is pushing to expand private school voucher programs.

And in state after state, groups are learning more and fighting back.

In some cases, the pro-public school groups are asking their governor to intervene, or they are looking for support from state lawmakers.

In other states, including Ohio, where it is clear the legislature and the governor have an agenda to promote the spread of private school vouchers, groups have sued the state.

Vouchers Hurt Ohio, a coalition of public school districts, has filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of the private school voucher program known as EdChoice.

A Franklin County Common Pleas judge has set the trial for Nov. 4. 

Keep watching here for updates and details.