[Guest Post by Jason Bedrick]
Terrible news today for families that had been hoping to start using education savings accounts to customize their children’s education:
CARSON CITY — A state judge Monday put the brakes on Nevada’s education savings accounts, granting an injunction sought by opponents who said it would drain critical funding resources from Nevada’s public schools and is unconstitutional.
District Judge James Wilson, in a 16-page ruling, said the state constitution requires “the legislature to set apart or assign money to be used to fund the operation of the public schools, to the exclusion of all other purposes.”
Wilson said because Senate Bill 302 diverts some general funds appropriated for public schools to fund private school tuition, it violates sections of the constitution.
“Plaintiff parents have met their burden of clearly proving that there is no set of circumstances under which the statute would be valid …” Wilson wrote.
An appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court is anticipated.
Let’s hope the case reaches the state supreme court speedily and that the justices act justly.
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