Parents opposed to vouchers program urge court to maintain injunction

Parents suing to block the school vouchers program filed a brief with the Supreme Court on Friday urging the court to keep the injunction preventing issuance of voucher checks in place. The so-called Educational Savings Account program created by Senate Bill 302 allows the state treasurer to pay parents the state per pupil funding and let them use it to pay private school tuition for their children. Those parents would get a bit more than $5,100 a year for each child removed from public school.