FIRST FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR
This
month’s First Friday Happy Hour is TONIGHT, October 4 from 5:00 – 7:00
pm at the Blue Martini in Town Square on the south end of the Strip in Las Vegas. Our VIP guest-of-honor will be our 2014 Courage under Fire award recipient, Amanda Collins.
HUGE VICTORY FOR SCHOOL
CHOICE…BUT NOT IN NEVADA
A
gaggle of school voucher-haters – led by the Arizona School Boards Association
and the Arizona teachers union – filed a lawsuit challenging the Arizona
Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESA) program.
Among other things, the voucher haters maintained that the voucher
program violated the state’s constitution since the vouchers could be used in
religious schools.
Such
constitutional prohibitions in state constitutions are generally known as
“Blaine Amendments” – and Nevada has one, too.
But the trial court “found the Religion Clause was not violated because
the state ‘is not directing where monies are to go,’ so there ‘is no purpose by
the State to directly benefit any religious school.’”
The
school voucher haters appealed.
On
October 1st the Arizona Court of Appeals struck a huge victory for school
choice by soundly rejecting the appeal.