It was against this severe situation that the Ohio Legislature enacted a program designed to give students in failing schools a choice in education. The program was Ohio’s Pilot Project Scholarship Program, hereby as PPSP, which provided tuition aid in the form of vouchers for students in Cleveland City School District to attend participating public or private schools of their parent’s choosing. The tuition aids are made available in the form of checks payable to the parents, who choose the school to which the checks will be sent. By 1999-2000, 82% of private schools that participated were religious schools (Jennings, 2002). Typically, religiously affiliated schools cost less than private independent schools, which explains the large percentage
