“The Scholarship Program will continue…and we will work with the Legislature to find another funding source to keep parents and kids in these schools.”
—State Superintendent of Education John White, in a prepared statement in response to the Louisiana Supreme Court’s 6-1 decision that using funds from the Minimum Foundation Program to fund vouchers for private and virtual schools is unconstitutional.
“Diverting dollars from our already struggling school districts to private school vouchers for a select few students is wrong.”
—State Sen. Karen Carter Peterson (D-New Orleans), state chairperson of the Louisiana Democratic Party.
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