Kentucky’s 2024 Constitutional Amendment No. 2 on 2024 ballot
After you text of the Amendment, you can read what they actually mean, without the legal jargon.
The Kentucky’s Secretary of State has a shortened version on the Amendments on their page:
https://www.sos.ky.gov/elections/Pages/2024-Constitutional-Amendments.aspx
The actual text that is on the ballot is:
Constitutional Amendment 2
To give parents choices in educational opportunities for their children, are you in favor of enabling the General Assembly to provide financial support for the education costs of students in kindergarten through 12th grade who are outside the system of common (public) schools by amending the Constitution of Kentucky as stated below?
IT IS PROPOSED THAT A NEW SECTION BE ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY TO READ AS FOLLOWS: The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools. The General Assembly may exercise this authority by law, Sections59,60,171,183,184,186,and189 of this Constitution notwithstanding.
Yes or No
In plain language that the amendment means:
In plain language, your tax dollars will go to fund private schools, they can be charter school or religious schools, or anything else. As of now, your tax dollars go to public (called common) schools that anyone attend. If this amendment goes into effect, the State will be paying for private schools, and that money will be taken from the public school. That means less money for teachers, supplies, everything for the majority of Kentucky students who will go to public schools.
While it is billed as “school choice,” you can also choose to send your child a private school, but if they go to public school, the schools will have less money per child, as that money would then go into a private school, if this amendment passes. Currently you can send your child to private school, and many have financial aid for those that can’t afford their tuition.
Also, just as it is now, private schools can expel a child for any reasons, grades, behavior, clothes (or any reason they want), so if you vote “Yes’ on the amendment you are funding school that can expel child for any reason they want and the public schools that child would go back would be poorer as part of their funding when to the private school.