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Ohio education and the ‘ACE’ up its sleeve

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In The Lima News, The Buckeye Institute highlights how Ohio’s new Afterschool Child Enrichment Education Savings Account Program will help parents afford desperately-needed resources to improve their children’s educational outcomes. “[S]tate policymakers…have recognized the educational challenges that families face—and the financial burdens that those challenges can pose. To help, state leaders have expanded school choice options to reach more students and families, offering them more than a one-size-fits-all, hand-me-down approach to public education.”

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State Spotlight: Ohio Parents Empowered with Opportunity

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In a new piece, The Buckeye Institute and ExcelinEd highlight Ohio’s new education savings account program—the Afterschool Child Enrichment (ACE) program. “Thanks to these new initiatives, Ohio has empowered parents and protected students. As children return to the classroom and families recover from the pandemic’s disruptive and uncertain consequences, Ohio has done well to budget more flexibility, innovation, and affordability for learning—the ABCs of student-first education.”;  

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Once Again Congress Sees Over-Regulation as a Solution

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In the wake of stock market bubbles hitting companies like GameStop and AMC Theatres, Congress is once again searching for “solutions.” Unsurprisingly, Congress’s solution—dubbed the Short Sale Transparency and Market Fairness Act—would increase regulatory burdens substantially, this time on investment fund managers, and, according to government regulators, would provide little beneficial information compared to existing reporting requirements. 

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‘Success breeds success.’ Ohio is on a post-pandemic winning streak

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In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute, looks at the wins in Ohio’s recently passed budget, writing, “Ohio’s budget delivers strong victories, reducing and streamlining taxes, enhancing school choice, and expanding successful criminal justice reform. The fiscal belt should have been tightened and more fat could have been trimmed — moves that will be needed later for sustainability — but across-the-board tax cuts and smart policy reforms extend Ohio’s winning streak and give us all something to cheer.”

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Government should not own broadband networks

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In the Akron Beacon Journal, The Buckeye Institute highlights the downside of government-owned and controlled internet broadband service. Greg R. Lawson, a research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, writes, “The Buckeye Institute has noted numerous examples, from more than a decade of research, of GONs offering services that are already available from private providers, failing to attract enough customers to achieve financial stability and opaquely channeling taxpayer dollars away from critical government services.”

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Ohio wisely declines more federal unemployment funds

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In Crain’s Cleveland Business, The Buckeye Institute outlines why the decision to end participation in the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program was the right decision for Ohio, with Logan Kolas, an economic policy analyst with the Economic Research Center at The Buckeye Institute, writing, “Ohio should prioritize policies and incentives that get Ohioans back to work and its businesses back to business as usual.”

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“Ohio’s flawed justice system allows some to buy freedom, others to wait in jail”

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In The Columbus Dispatch, The Buckeye Institute urges Ohio policymakers to reform Ohio’s broken cash bail system, which “allows cash bail to serve as an illegitimate proxy for public safety, allowing dangerous defendants to pay cash to offset their threat to public safety.” Andrew J. Geisler, a legal fellow at The Buckeye Institute, writes, “Policymakers can codify the Supreme Court’s presumption of release rule and take additional steps to ensure that state courts treat all defendants fairly in the pretrial decision.”

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Eviction Moratorium Dubious Impact

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In a new piece, The Buckeye Institute looks at the impact of eviction moratoriums, writing, “[A] better policy would encourage voluntary forbearance and reductions rather than impose them by government fiat. Federal, state, and local governments should lift the eviction moratoriums and give emergency federal assistance a chance to help. If smaller landlords lose their rental properties, the long-term side-effects of well-intended fiat policies may prove worse than the disease.”

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