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May 26, 2004

Colorado voucher program gets court hearing

The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the state's appeal of a district court ruling that its state voucher program is unconstitutional. A decision is expected in about two months, the Associated Press reports. The state's deputy attorney general argued that the Legislature had the right to create the program that would grant private school vouchers of about $4,500 per student. A district court judge last year halted the program, which had been set to begin in Fall 2004, because he said it violated the local control clause of the state constitution. As BoardBuzz has previously reported, Colorado voters have twice rejected vouchers, and the Legislature rejected three bills this year aimed at sidestepping the lower court's ruling by recreating the voucher program.

Posted May 26, 2004 12:00 AM