From the Institute for Justice News Release:
“The Institute for Justice and its Arizona Chapter today pledged to defend Arizona’s two new publicly funded scholarship programs from legal attack. The programs are designed to help especially vulnerable students-those with disabilities and those in foster care-secure quality educational opportunities in private schools. A coalition of special interest groups filed their legal challenge today, skipping the trial court and asking for a resolution of the case by the Arizona Supreme Court….”
“‘That school choice opponents are aiming their legal firepower at two programs designed to help the neediest of children shows just how desperate they are to maintain the educational status quo,’ said Chip Mellor, IJ president and general counsel. ‘The current system simply isn’t working for too many children, and that’s why we will fight wherever and whenever necessary to vindicate the promise of equal educational opportunity….'”
