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  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldOPM
    14·
    2 months ago

    Yeah, 1 is already illegal and 2 sounds like they want to take public dollars away from public schools and feed it to religious ones. 🙄

    • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
      9·
      2 months ago

      Kentucky’s state constitution has uniquely strong protections for public school funding, and amendment 2 nullifies all of them in one go.

      Here’s the wording:

      To give parents choices in educational opportunities for their children, are you in favor of enabling the General Assembly to provide financial support for the education costs of students in kindergarten through 12th grade who are outside the system of common (public) schools by amending the Constitution of Kentucky as stated below?

      IT IS PROPOSED THAT A NEW SECTION BE ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY TO READ AS FOLLOWS:

      The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools. The General Assembly may exercise this authority by law, Sections 59, 60, 171, 183, 184, 186, and 189​ of this Constitution notwithstanding.

      I genuinely think most KY voters don’t know what notwithstanding means, if they even bother to read that far.

    • Skanky@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      100% it’s gonna go to religious schools. I’m not even sure that any non-religious private schools even exist in this backwards-ass state

      • nickiwest@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        They do. There are a few elite non-religious private schools in Louisville.

        But they are far outnumbered by parochial schools.