In a 5-0 decision, the Indiana Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s private school voucher law, the “Choice Scholarship Program”, passes muster under the state constitution.
Continue reading...In a 2-1 split, a three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that the plaintiffs, who include students, parents, taxpayers, and non-profit organizations, lacked standing to challenge the Douglas County School District’s Choice Scholarship Program, which provides vouchers for private school tuition under Colorado’s Public School Finance Act of 1994.
Continue reading...The Birmingham Business Journal reports that the Alabama Education Association has filed a lawsuit to block a bill that would give a tax credit to parents of children at failing schools to offset the cost of attending private school or another public school.
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...According to the Courier-Journal, legislation has been introduced in the Indiana legislature to make it easier for siblings of private school voucher students to join Indiana’s voucher program.
Continue reading...The New Hampshire Union Leader reports that the ACLU, the New Hampshire chapter of the ACLU, and Americans United for Separation of Church and State have filed suit against New Hampshire’s Education Tax Credit system, the Republican-backed plan that issues tax credits to businesses that donate to scholarship funds used to pay tuition for students to attend private and religious schools.
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...On October 25, 2012, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard oral arguments in D.L. v. Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City, No. 11-2041. The question before the three-judge panel is whether a disabled student, who was unilaterally placed in a private school, is entitled to special education services under Section 504 at a public school district’s expense.
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