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...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 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 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...The Carolina Journal reports that the North Carolina House rejected an amendment that would have allowed the General Assembly to consider the creation of an education tax credit enabling low- and middle-income students to attend a school other than their assigned public schools. House Bill 1988, “Tax Fairness in Education,” would have allowed North Carolinians who choose to educate their children in a home school, private school, or public school that charges tuition an individual income tax credit of up to $1,250 per eligible child per semester or a maximum of $2,500 for a full academic year starting in FY11-12. During 2010-11, the maximum credit would be $1,250.
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