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LINCOLN — Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen on Thursday made official what the Legislature already made obvious: that there will be no need to vote this November on the repeal of the original Opportunity Scholarships Act. A conservative majority in the officially nonpartisan Legislature redesigned and repealed the initial tax credit for donors to […] The post Opportunity Scholarships Act repeal is pulled from ballot after LB 1402 adopted appeared first on Nebraska Examiner.

A measure to repeal a now-defunct law passed last year that would use public money to fund private school tuition has been pulled from Nebraska’s November ballot, the secretary of state announced Thursday. Nebraska Secretary of State Bob Evnen said he's pulling from the ballot a measure to repeal the law that would have allowed corporations and individuals to divert millions of dollars in state income taxes they owed to nonprofit organizations that would award private school tuition scholarships. The Nebraska Legislature repealed and replaced that this year with a new law that cu...

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LINCOLN, Neb. — The state teachers union and other advocates for keeping public funds for public schools say they won’t let supporters of Nebraska’s revamped school choice law sidestep the

In an echo of last year, opponents of a new Nebraska law appropriating state funds to support scholarships to private schools are trying to partially repeal the law through a