“Whether it is access, whether it’s academics or whether it’s athletics, simply put, we have to defeat Amendment 2,” said Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, “because the public schools that serve 90% of students in Kentucky deserve nothing less than the very best.”
Coleman delivered her remarks to a room full of reporters and attendees at the office of Ironworkers Local 44 in Hebron Thursday morning. The event focused on Coleman’s opposition to constitutional Amendment 2, which will appear on ballots in November. Coleman, Gov. Andy Beshear and Democrats generally are against the measure. Thursday’s speech served as a way for Coleman and other NKY Democrats to express their reasoning against it.
Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 2, otherwise titled the Allow State Funding for Non-Public Education Amendment, would add language to the state’s constitution that could enable the General Assembly to provide public funding for non-public education…