Thursday, January 16, 2014

These 40 School Systems (So Far) Are Suing To Stop Dan Soucek's School Voucher Scheme

Sen. Dan Soucek was a handy legislative tool in getting a provision into the state budget to grant up to $4,200 per student per year of taxpayer money to parents wishing to send their children to private schools. (In its original version, I believe this was called  the Kill Public Education Act of 2012.)

A lawsuit was filed Dec. 11 in Wake Superior Court challenging the constitutionality of the voucher scheme, and now some 40 school systems across the state have signed on as co-plaintiffs to that suit, including some obvious communists in places like Catawba, Cleveland, Rutherford, Surry, and Yancey counties (full list below).

They do not like your voucher scheme, Senator Soucek, and they think it bad policy, let alone unconstitutional, to rob public schools in order to fund private education.

Alamance County 
Asheboro City 
Catawba County 
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City 
Chatham County 
Cleveland County 
Columbus County 
Craven County 
Currituck County 
Davidson County 
Durham County 
Edenton-Chowan 
Gates County 
Graham County 
Halifax County 
Harnett County 
Hyde County 
Lee County 
Lenoir County 
Lexington City 
Macon County 
Martin County 
Mount Airy City 
Newton-Conover 
Onslow County 
Orange County 
Pamlico County 
Person County 
Pitt County 
Polk County 
Rockingham County 
Rutherford County 
Scotland County 
Stanly County 
Surry County 
Vance County 
Warren County 
Washington County 
Whiteville City 
Yancey County

Why isn't Watauga County on this list?

4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:31 PM

    Irony! Soucek's appointment to the joint task force to study teacher pay!

    http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/16/4617157/nc-senate-names-advisers-on-teacher.html#.Uthc-PtZXTQ

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  2. Or Ashe? Hopefully, Watauga and Ashe will be on the list soon!

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  3. Liberal POV11:17 AM

    The only jobs created by small minded Republicans like Dan Soucek will be for attorneys to fight against his brand of repressive government.

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  4. Anonymous11:24 AM

    Wow! I had no ideal that the former Soviet Union had taken over those Counties during the Cold War?

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