HB3097 requires school districts to assist “each high school student” with “education about and the completion of” a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or, “if applicable, an application for State financial aid.”
The House passed HB3097 on April 10, 2025, by a vote of 84 to 24. We have assigned pluses to the nays because education is not the role of government—it is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. Moreover, both federal student aid and the U.S. Department of Education ought to terminated, as neither is authorized according to Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution. Every school, college, and university can and should be privatized, without any need for public funding that steals from taxpayers (e.g., income or property taxes) and drains the treasury. If not dismantled, the government’s monopoly on K-12 education and beyond will continue to displace traditional private schools and homeschooling in favor of universal state-controlled schooling. The best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education or financial future in the hands of the state. Educational and economic freedom cannot be achieved by forcing other citizens to give up their hard-earned tax dollars for all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run school system.
