It has been a constant tug of war before finally a legislative subcommittee gave final approval on the regulations of Nevada’s new School Choice Law that allows the parents to use state funding in order to send their children off to private schools.
Solicitor General Lawrence VanDyke, in the April 29 brief said opponents’ arguments that the law illegally diverts money from a fund that is specifically for public education “would straitjacket the Legislature” and upend more than a century of law that authorizes general fund spending to encourage education outside the public school system.
Tammy Godley, who was the attorney for the six families that were completely against the education savings accounts to begin with, stated that the Clark County School District within the first year would lose on an upwards of $17 million. It was said that this number would only go up from here while more parents jump on board with the program.
But, it is becoming more apparent that supporters of the program believe that public schools will actually benefit because they will still be receiving local as well as federal government funding for children who leave public school, which will in fact raise the overall per-person rate for the remaining students.
Judge Wilson sided with the opponents who claimed diverting money away from public schools and into accounts that parents could use to pay for private school tuition along with any other education services would actually destroy the K-12 system in Nevada.
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