{"id":13792,"date":"2012-10-02T12:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T16:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=13792"},"modified":"2012-10-31T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:38:11","slug":"read-the-florida-supreme-court-decision-making-public-funding-of-private-schools-unconstitutional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/02\/read-the-florida-supreme-court-decision-making-public-funding-of-private-schools-unconstitutional\/","title":{"rendered":"Read The Florida Supreme Court Decision Making Public Funding of Private Schools Unconstitutional"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13755\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/01\/will-amendment-8-allow-florida-to-fund-religious-schools-not-directly\/10-1-floridasupremecourt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13755\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13755\" title=\"10-1 FloridaSupremeCourt\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-1-FloridaSupremeCourt-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-1-FloridaSupremeCourt-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/10\/10-1-FloridaSupremeCourt.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">jmv0586 \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Florida Supreme Court ruled the state&#39;s universal private school voucher program unconstitutional in 2006.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we explained <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/10\/01\/will-amendment-8-allow-florida-to-fund-religious-schools-not-directly\/\">why this fall&#8217;s vote on Amendment 8 can&#8217;t directly mean the return of Florida&#8217;s universal voucher program or state funding of religious schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why: The 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve annotated some significant portions of the opinion. That includes the portion where the majority explicitly says they are not basing their decision on the section of the state constitution which Amendment 8 would rewrite.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the decision after the jump:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><div class=\"embed-documentcloud\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><div class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"> <div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:129.4444444444444%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%;\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/444718-bushvholmesdecision.html?embed=true&amp;responsive=false&amp;sidebar=false\" title=\"BushVHolmesDecision (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:1px solid #aaa;border-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;\"><\/iframe> <\/div> <\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we explained why this fall&#8217;s vote on Amendment 8 can&#8217;t directly mean the return of Florida&#8217;s universal voucher program or state funding of religious schools. Here&#8217;s why: The 2006 Florida Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Holmes. We&#8217;ve annotated some significant portions of the opinion. That includes the portion where the majority explicitly says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":13755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1184,753,671,1047,1008,1020],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13795,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13792\/revisions\/13795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}