One likely casualty of this year's budget malfunction is the Academy of Mathematics and Science at Western Kentucky University. This is an illegal charter school with students who come from all over the state.
If lawmakers would just get over their ideological opposition to school choice, we could make charter schools legal, spread them all over the state, and it wouldn't be such a tragedy when a strong new program like this goes down. The House Dems' rigid opposition to making the Kentucky Lottery operate more efficiently is to blame for this. Who are they protecting and why?
