Court fight over Louisiana school vouchers isn't over
by Mike Hasten - The Town Talk (excerpt)

BATON ROUGE -- It's been an eventful week. A Baton Rouge judge cleared the way for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's school voucher program to go into effect Aug. 1, the Department of Health and Hospitals approved a budget reduction plan that shifts most of the cuts to the LSU hospitals that provide care largely to the poor and uninsured, and Jindal racked up more miles on the state's credit card.

It's not that Judge Tim Kelley approved the voucher plan, which uses public money to fund tuition at private schools. He just agreed with the state's attorney, Jimmy Faircloth of Pineville, that his hands were tied by a state law that says if a state official declares that a judge's decision would force a budget deficit, the judge can't do it.

Kelley saw the flaws in that provision of law before the attorneys from the Louisiana Association of Educators. Louisiana Federation of Teachers and Louisiana School Boards Association had their say.