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...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...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...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 by the Associated Press in the Courier-Journal, the Indiana House Education Committee has approved a proposal that would prohibit public schools from handling paycheck deductions for teachers’ union dues.
Continue reading...According to the Lebanon Daily News, the Lebanon school board unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit involving the district’s truancy policy and accusations that it excessively fined parents of minority students with multiple unexcused absences.
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...According to an Associated Press report in The Daily Union, conservative Republican state legislators upset with past Kansas Supreme Court rulings that the state was not spending enough money on its public schools have proposed a measure that would add a new sentence to the state constitution’s education article declaring that the legislature has the exclusive power to set spending on schools.
Continue reading...According to The Notebook, a number of former employees claim that K12, Inc, a for-profit education company, used dubious and sometimes fraudulent tactics to mask astronomical rates of student turnover in its national network of cyber charter schools.
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