‘Failing grade': Opponents don’t even want to have the discussion. BIPPS included in media coverage of Amendment 2 fight

Recent media coverage in Kentucky’s two largest school districts makes it clear: Not only do opponents of Amendment 2 not want to give families access to additional educational alternatives, they don’t even want lawmakers considering policies that include funding mechanisms allowing parents to choose schools for their children they couldn’t otherwise afford.

Amendment 2 doesn't determine what, if any, education-choice policies will ultimately be made available to Kentuckians. It simply clarifies that the Kentucky Constitution doesn’t prevent lawmakers from considering expanding educational alternatives which include a funding mechanism beyond the traditional public school system.

Opponents fearmonger about what policies lawmakers could ultimately approve if voters support Amendment 2 in November's election. The Bluegrass Institute counters those claims - as we've been doing for more than two decades - in recent media coverage here, here, here, here, in public forums here and here and on the What’s Up World! podcast here.

Amendment 2 doesn’t determine Kentucky’s school choice policy; it simply allows lawmakers to consider one. Opponents earn a failing grade for not even wanting to have the discussion, especially in a state where the public K-12 system fails to educate a majority of its students despite a whopping 122% inflation-adjusted increase in per-pupil funding since passage of the Kentucky Education Reform Act in 1990.