Election Day is in three weeks and Kentuckians will decide on more than just candidates.

Voters will have the chance to approve or reject two proposed constitutional amendments.

Constitutional Amendment two is getting lots of noise with rallies across the state and high dollar advocacy organized by supporters and opponents alike.

But a group in northern Kentucky is taking a different approach to educating voters more.

And this election 2024 Update from Kentucky Edition's Clayton Dalton.

In northern Kentucky's Kenton County, voters poured into a library community room for a discussion on constitutional Amendment two.

But this wasn't a debate or a rally.

It was a civic forum hosted by Link K-Y, a regional news outlet.

We don't care how you vote on Amendment two, and we don't care who you vote for.

We just care that you vote.

If passed, Amendment two would enable the General Assembly to allocate public funds to private schools.

Panelist for and against the amendment shared their perspective on the issue.

This amendment simply says that our Constitution cannot be interpreted as preventing the legislature from passing those programs, and we see them in 45 other states.

If this was going to harm public education, we would have seen it by now in 30 years, over 30 years of school choice.

The education systems in other states that have lots of choices would have imploded.

Instead.

Their public education systems are getting better, and more parents are taking advantage of those choices.

It's a win win win.

And by the way, teachers get more options as well in those states as well.

So it's a win win win win for students, win for teachers, win for the state.

It's a it's a positive thing.

Amendment two would amend Kentucky's Constitution, our founding documents in seven areas.

That's a significant number of changes to basically remove the protections and opened the door to public dollars going to private schools for education, private and parochial schools.

It would be a significant change in the way that Kentucky is providing education and we believe would compromise the state's ability to improve education outcomes writ large.

We spoke with voters at the forum to get their reaction.

This was really helpful tonight.

I'm still I still have a lot of questions that I want to do some research on, but it was helpful to understand for me, the basics of this is if we vote yes, we're giving all power to our legislators to make decisions for our education of our children in the future.

And I'm not sure I'm comfortable with giving them all that power quite yet.

Well, I wanted to hear if there were some things that I had not considered, that maybe I'm wrong, you know, I could be wrong.

Maybe Amendment two would be a solution.

But as I listened to the people who were in the panel and listened to people in my role, I just can't I didn't change my mind at all.

We weren't able to speak with anyone who expressed support for Amendment two, but they were in attendance and at times during the forum cheered.

Why is there such opposition against allowing parents to have a say in where their children go to school?

Why is there.

With less than a month until Election Day?

The clock is ticking for Kentuckians to decide how they will vote on a constitutional amendment to.

Thank you all for your time being present.

Thank you.

For watching.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Clayton Dalton.