Iberville Parish School Board v. Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and the State Of…

Summary

The court reversed the court of appeal's declaration that SCR 55's allocation of Minimum Foundation Program funding to New Type 2 charter schools was unconstitutional. It held that New Type 2 charter schools are public schools and that the Louisiana Constitution does not prohibit allocating state or local MFP funding to them through the approved formula. Johnson, C.J., dissenting, would have held that SCR 55 diverted public-school funds to nonpublic schools, while Weimer, J., concurred in the result on a different constitutional analysis.