All week, we’ve been telling you about
the
bullying tactics of special interests trying to scare schools out of
participating in the newly-expanded statewide voucher program. Now, thanks to the
Alliance for School Choice
and the
Institute for Justice, there is something you can do about it. Check out the
new legal defense fund
to help protect schools that are attacked by lawsuits for participating in
the voucher program.
The
Louisiana Defense Fund,
created in response to the letter sent by the Louisiana Association of
Educators that threatened to sue private schools that participate in the
program, will protect Louisiana schools against legal threats from the local
teachers union.
And while defenders of the status quo are reaching new lows
to stop a scholarship program designed to help students from low-income
families that are stuck in failing schools, those standing for children have
been hard at work. The Department of
Education recently announced the awarding of 5,637 scholarships—just more than
half of the 10,300 applications received.
The program is set to move forward at the beginning of the
school year, while the trial to determine the constitutionality of the program
is set to begin on October 15.
- American Federation for Children | Alliance for School Choice, MSG
