Confused over bill's legal status, Board of Education puts brakes on voucher program (Utah)

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Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

It's doubtful but not impossible that Utah will have a functioning school voucher program by fall after the Utah Board of Education on Thursday opted to seek legal counsel before adopting rules to set up the program.

Upset by the delay, voucher supporters expect a lawsuit.

''Anything's on the table considering that they're not abiding by the law,'' said Leah Barker, a spokeswoman for Parents for Choice in Education. "I hope this isn't another tactic to delay the thousands of moms and dads who ."

The state's Parent Choice in Education Act, the broadest school voucher program in the nation, is on hold pending a public vote after voucher foes collected enough signatures to force a referendum on the matter. Yet a second law, which amended the first, remains on the books and could be applied to start the program, according to an opinion from Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/education/ci_5815558

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1. the mormon church wants subsidies for their little angesl to stay at home?

are they afraid of no child left behind schools that bushmeister is cramming down out throats?

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