Money for public schools could pay for private- or home-school students’ plane tickets to study Italian — or for their chicken coops or lessons in ice skating or rodeo roping, according to plaintiffs alleging a 2023 education bill approved by the Montana Legislature is unconstitutional. This week, the Montana Quality Education Coalition and Disability Rights […] The post Bill for students with disabilities should be stopped as lawsuit unfolds, plaintiffs argue appeared first on Daily Montanan.
A bill proposed to help children with disabilities actually represents a “staggering” loss of funding to public schools in the form of a “blank check,” would be a hit to rural districts, and unconstitutionally routes state money to private institutions “at the discretion of private individuals,” according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
A bill proposed to help children with disabilities actually represents a “staggering” loss of funding to public schools in the form of a “blank check,” would be a hit to rural districts, and unconstitutionally routes state money to private institutions “at the discretion of private individuals,” according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The voucher program […]
Disability Rights Montana and the Montana Quality Education Coalition, two organizations that advocate for public school students, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of a new state law that
Many homeless shelters report that the state hospital in Warm Springs is just dropping patients at the doors with little support for their care after being institutionalized.