Use of MFP funds for vouchers weighed
by Will Sentell - Advocate (excerpt)

Legislation that, for the first time, would provide state school aid for some students to attend private and parochial schools won approval Thursday in the state Senate Education Committee. The proposal, Senate Concurrent Resolution 299, passed 4-1 and next faces action in the full Senate.

The plan authorizes the spending of $3.4 billion for Louisiana’s 700,000 public school students for the 2012-13 school year. It would mark the fourth consecutive year that spending per student would be frozen amid state financial problems.

The money goes through an allocation formula called the Minimum Foundation Program.