The biggest problem with Amendment 2 — the one that would allow public money to go to private schools — is that it’s too broad.
It doesn’t limit the amount of money the legislature could send to private and religious schools, nor does it limit when and under what circumstances those funds can be redirected.
Theoretically, that money could be sent to St. Xavier or Collegiate or Kentucky Country Day to help cover the tuitions of the sons and daughters of doctors, lawyers and high-paid corporate executives, rather than kids who truly need help.
So, I’ve got a plan.
Let’s defeat the constitutional amendment and come back with a scheme that will limit what the legislature — which has shown time and again it too easily bows to political dogma and won’t focus solutions that are backed by statistics and research — can do when it goes about giving away your money.
We can call it “No child left with a ‘D.’”
The problems with ‘school choice’
There are numerous problems with the proposals the legislature has made in the past for offering what it calls “school choice.”