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Analysis: Private school tax credit lawsuit is a throwback to Idaho’s school facilities case
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Idaho Education News
It’s 20 years later and a different Supreme Court, with a new set of five justices and no holdovers.
And opponents of House Bill 93, the $50 million private school tax credit law, are pinning their case on this one sentence.
Plaintiffs will argue that a single public education system, effectively a monopoly, is constitutionally protected.
The legal arguments certainly were different two decades ago, when a different Supreme Court took up the facilities issue.
So it is déjà vu — in the sense that it is another huge education lawsuit centered on the definition of public education in Idaho.
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