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Scholarship proposal faces constitutional test
Gov. Bobby Jindal's proposal to give scholarships to low-income students to transfer from struggling public schools to private or parochial schools could run afoul of the state Constitution.
Under Jindal's scholarship plan, which has been described as a voucher program, the state would pay a portion of the private school tuition. Those dollars would come from the state's Minimum Foundation Program (MFP) for the school district in which the student resides.
That's where the problem arises.
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