A six justice majority of the Louisiana Supreme Court, with one justice dissenting, has ruled that the state’s means of funding its statewide private school voucher program violates the state constitution.
Continue reading...The Alexandria Town Talk reports that the Louisiana Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a suit brought by opponents of the state’s private school voucher program, including the Louisiana School Boards Association, the Louisiana Federation of Teachers, and the Louisiana Association of Educators.
Continue reading...On March 18, 2013, NSBA filed an amicus curaie brief in Louisiana Federation of Teachers v. State of Louisiana, now before the Louisiana Supreme Court, which will review a lower court’s decision as to whether the state’s private school voucher program violates state constitutional provisions governing the annual education funding formula.
Continue reading...According to The Advocate, Louisiana District Judge R. Michael Caldwell, of the 19th Judicial District Court, who upheld the tenure part of a sweeping education law in December 2012, has reversed himself after hearing new arguments from both sides.
Continue reading...According to a report on thenewsstar.com, Louisiana Education Superintendent John White is “optimistic” that the Louisiana Supreme Court will throw out a Baton Rouge district judge’s ruling that utilizing the public school funding formula, known as Minimum Foundation Program, to pay for private school vouchers is unconstitutional.
Continue reading...In a 2-1 split, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has temporarily stayed the portion of a federal district court order preliminarily enjoining the state of Louisiana from implementing its recently enacted private school voucher program as applied to the Tangipahoa Parish School District.
Continue reading...The Associated Press reports in The Washington Post that Governor Bobby Jindal’s voucher program that uses tax dollars to send students to private schools has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge who said it is improperly funded through the public school financing formula.
Continue reading...As reported by The Associated Press in The Times-Picayune, a federal district court judge has held that the operation of Governor Bobby Jindal’s voucher program in Tangipahoa Parish conflicts with a decades-old desegregation case in the parish.
Continue reading...According to an Associated Press report in The Times-Picayune, the Tangipahoa Parish school system argues that Louisiana’s new voucher law, which pays private school tuition for some lower-income students from low-performing schools, diverts state money from the local school district.
Continue reading...The Times-Picayune reports that in following up on a complaint by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice will be investigating whether the Jefferson Parish school system discriminates against its Latino students.
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