Carol Burris, executive director of the nonprofit Network for Public Education, which has tracked the impact of publicly funded private-school scholarship and voucher programs for years, said it’s likely state Sen. Lou Ann Linehan, R-Elkhorn, introduced LB 1402 because she knows the history of this type of referendum. “When they’ve actually gone to the point where there has been a referendum, every single time, vouchers have gone down,” she said. “Every time they’ve gone up to a ballot, they’ve been rejected.”
You can read Deborah Van Fleet’s piece in the Public News Service here.
