House Republicans previously authorized funding for a Washington-based schoolvoucherprogram championed by House Speaker John Boehner and one Obama sought to eliminate.
In addition to union reform, Mr. Walker and his allies in the legislature passed a statewide schoolvoucherprogram, eased business regulation, and enacted tort reform.
By a 5-to-2 decision the Sunshine State's highest tribunal ruled unconstitutional the state's Opportunity Scholarship schoolvoucherprogram that allowed parents to pull their kids out of failing public schools and place them in alternative schools, including private ones.