Twenty provide no transportation funding to private schools. In Ohio, state law allows tax money to go to private schools for transportation and other specifically defined goods and services. One caveat is that those funds cannot provide the private school students with anything beyond what they would be getting if they went to the public school where they live. A Beacon Journal analysis of the Department of Education expenditures shows that the state actually spends 21 percent more per pupil to transport private school students than it does for public schoolchildren. Akron schools' policy is to provide no bus transportation to students who live within two miles of their schools.
Finances allow nothing more than that.
Under auxiliary services, the state pays for textbooks, science equipment, reading and math intervention, health care and other non-religious services at private schools. Ohio began its tax support of private schools by offering bus transportation in 1966. From that point, it became one of the most aggressive private-support states in the country. State judged overzealous In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Ohio had become overzealous. Because the state had made no provisions to prevent tax money from being diverted for religious purposes, Ohio's support of private education was violating the U.S. Constitution, the court said.