State judge rules Louisiana school voucher program unconstitutional

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's private school tuition voucher program has been ruled unconstitutional by a state judge.

State Judge Tim Kelley said Friday that the program improperly diverts money allocated through the state's public school funding formula to private schools. He also said it unconstitutionally diverts local tax dollars to private schools.

Kelley ruled in a lawsuit backed by teacher unions and school boards seeking to shut down the voucher program.

The state education department and the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education said the programs were funded and created in line with the constitution.

vouchers are issued to parents/children....where they use them should be irrelevant to anyone.

A lot of things that should be irrelevant end up in court, and you can be sure that if a widespread voucher system ever came into use that schools that accepted them would be subject to all sorts of lawsuits and government interference on the grounds that they were receiving public funds (vouchers to be honored by a government).

FLASHBACK VIDEO: Teachers Union Bigshot – Not About Kids, It’s About Power

In 2009, after 41 years as the nations top education lawyer for the National Education Association, Bob Chanin gave his farewell address in which he said it’s not about kids, but about power.

“Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”

“And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year, because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”

http://blog.eyeblast.tv/2011/02/flashback-teachers-union-bigshot-not-about-kids-its-about-power/

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