EdCounsel Insights
This podcast features host Duane Martin and other members of the EdCounsel team, who provide the latest updates on legal issues facing Missouri public schools. In each episode, the host will take a current legal topic and provide practical insights into how to manage the legal risks and compliance issues related to that topic. In January 2014, four school attorneys left the school law practice at former firms to found a completely different type of law firm – one whose sole purpose is to serve Missouri public school districts. EdCounsel is now a team of 12 attorneys who are dedicated to public schools and public school leaders.
EdCounsel Insights
Episode 10: Missouri’s New Voucher Bill - Drafted to Endorse Discrimination?
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Emily Omohundro and Rachel Meystedt join Duane to discuss Missouri’s new voucher bill. HB 349 creates a voucher tax credit program that will indirectly provide public funds to private schools. When read in its entirety, the statute appears to be calculated to endorse private school discrimination against students with disabilities, even though the private schools in the program will be accepting public funds.