Utah teacher union asks judge to void Amendment A, launches campaign to vote 'no'

Utah’s largest teacher union and the other plaintiffs suing the Utah Legislature over the state’s new “school choice” voucher program are taking a page out of the Amendment D playbook.

As part of their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Utah Fits All Scholarship Program, the Utah Education association, two parents, a public school teacher and a Utah State Board of Education member on Wednesday filed a motion asking a district court judge to void another proposed constitutional amendment on Utah’s Nov. 5 ballot, Amendment A.

If approved by Utah voters, Amendment A would nix the state’s nearly 100-year-old constitutional earmark reserving income tax revenue (which currently reserves that money for public and higher education and some services for children or people with disabilities) and allow income tax dollars to fund other state needs.

The change would also specify in the Utah Constitution that the state can only use those dollars for other priorities after it uses a portion of revenue growth for “changes in student enrollment and long-term inflation” — something that’s already in state statute but would be codified in the constitution.



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