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Florida Court Rules Voucher Law Unconstitutional NewsMax.com WiresTALLAHASSEE, Fla. – A Florida law that allows pupils at failing public schools to attend private schools at taxpayers' expense is unconstitutional, a state appeals court ruled Monday. The decision by the 1st District Court of Appeal upholds a ruling by a trial judge saying the state constitution forbids the use of tax money to send youngsters to religious schools. Story Continues Below The law has been in force during the state's appeal, which now goes to the Florida Supreme Court. Under the 1999 law, the centerpiece of Gov. Jeb Bush's education policies, students attending public schools that earn failing grades two years out of four are eligible for vouchers to private schools, including religious schools. In 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court swept aside a major hurdle to voucher programs by ruling that such uses of tax dollars are not unconstitutional. But in his ruling months later, the trial judge said the program violates the state Constitution, which bans the use of tax dollars on religious schools.
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