The Douglas County School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to rescind that would have offered parents the option of enrolling their children in a non-religious private school.
The School Choice Grant Program, created after a previous voucher program that did include religious schools as unconstitutional, ran into its own legal problems , before it had a chance to launch. The judge said the program wasn’t substantially different from its predecessor program, the 2011 Choice Scholarship Program and, thus, should be enjoined as well.
Backers of the Choice Scholarship Program appealed last year’s ruling striking down the program to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has not made a decision on whether to consider the case.
Director Judith Reynolds first proposed killing the School Choice Grant Program Tuesday, saying the cost to defend the program in the courts going forward would not be a wise use of taxpayer money.
