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Florida Supreme Court strikes down school vouchers.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The nation's only statewide school voucher program to date--Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP)--violates the Florida constitution, the state supreme court held in January.

The court found that the program violates the constitution's education article, which says: "Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high-quality system of free public schools." (Bush v. Holmes, Nos. SC04-2323 to SC-4-2325, 2006 WL 20584 (Fla. Jan. 5, 2006).)

Under the OSP, a student at a public school that fails to meet the state's minimum standards can move to another public school that is not failing or to a private school, using funds from the public treasury that would have gone to the public school district. The program was established in 1999 and applies to...

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