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"misjudging" not "misguiding." Sorry.

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Hi Matt,

I certainly understand your concerns. I wish you had come to the meeting where the authors of this amendment presented. Kathy, my mom, is on the board of CEO (Commonwealth Educational Opportunities). There is a lot of misunderstanding around this amendment, which we are trying to education on. This amendment does not allow for school choice or for public money to be directed to private schools. Rather, it simply allows the legislature to consider it. Kentucky is one of only two (maybe four?) states in the nation that have something called the Blaine Amendment, a very old, anti-Catholic initiative that makes almost any form of school choice (other than pulling your kids out altogether) nearly impossible. Kentucky can’t even consider any form of legislation, including some things we would all probably agree on.

An amazing liberty law firm by the name of Institute for Justice, (www.ij.org) works for school choice reform around the country (vouchers for parents, tax tuition credits, etc. —things that will put the funding in the hands of the PARENTS so that our public money subsidizes the consumer rather than the supplier). They can’t help us in Kentucky because of the Blaine Amendment. Please note that we are already giving the government the money — money which is to be used to educate our children. Currently, we are also allowing them to fund government schools with it. What most of us want is something that allows parents to use at least some of those already designated funds toward the education they see fit for their own children.

I encourage you to learn more about this before voting no. I understand your points, but I think you may be misguiding this ballot initiative.

Thank you,

Dawn

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