The state Supreme Court has thrown out South Carolina’s fledgling K-12 voucher program as unconstitutional, leaving GOP leaders scrambling on what to tell parents who have already received money.
In a 3-2 split decision, the state’s high court ruled taxpayer dollars can’t be used to pay for private school tuition. What that means for the nearly 3,000 students already enrolled is uncertain. The state Education Department had no immediate answers.
The program already in place for this school year violates the state constitution’s prohibition against public dollars directly benefiting private schools, writes Justice Garry Hill for the majority.
But in North Carolina this week:
That legislation was done out of session and will be approved along gerrymandered party lines.
And a big difference between NC’s Supreme Court and SC’s Supreme Court (besides integrity) is that a major architect of the voucher scheme in NC and its most powerful politician also has his own son as a justice on the NC Supreme Court who will not recuse himself from any lawsuits that involve his father.
caffeinated rage 