Colorado Voucher Program Halted

Another legal blow to school vouchers in Colorado. The gist of the Rocky Mountain News account:

The one-sentence decision from District Judge Joseph Meyer puts the program's fate further into limbo, as voucher supporters had hoped to move ahead with the plan while the issue is being taken to the state Supreme Court.

Meyer—in a two-pronged decision last month—placed an injunction on the program, but not before ruling that the voucher law violates the state Constitution because it strips control from school boards.

State Attorney General Ken Salazar and the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice are appealing the local-control issue separately to the state's highest court. A decision could come this summer.
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Colorado's voucher system eventually was to become the country's largest, allowing up to 20,000 of the Front Range's poorest and lowest-performing students to use public money to attend private schools by 2007. The program was to start with roughly 3,300 children and 113 private schools.