The campaign to defeat the School choice amendment is also ramping up, as our June Lefler reports.

Education and political leaders say the future of public education is on the line.

Public educators and administrators are some of the most vocal critics of Amendment two.

This means that voters are being asked to change the constitution of Kentucky to allow the politicians in Frankfurt to divert funds from public schools to private schools that currently have no accountability to the public.

Public school superintendents from Western Kentucky say a vote for Amendment two is a vote against public schools, especially those in more rural counties.

53% of the Commonwealth Kentucky private schools are in three counties.

You will know they are Jefferson, Fayette and Boone.

That's where the money is going to go.

63 counties in Kentucky have no certified K-12 private schools.

They're going to lose out.

Public schools.

We educate more.

We educate.

Every student comes to us.

Are we perfect?

No public schools?

No private schools are perfect.

But we educate every soon that comes through our doors and we do it to the best of our ability will continue to do so.

Kentucky Democrats are standing alongside these public school leaders saying they are the party that backs public education.

Amendment two is really just a blank check for the Republicans in the General Assembly.

Do not let them convince you to write it.

If we can find millions of dollars for private schools, we can also give teachers and educators raises.

If we can find millions of dollars for private schools, we can fund pre-K. And if we can find millions of dollars for private schools, we can lower classroom sizes and fully fund pupil transportation.

The state second in command says while public schools aren't perfect, they are accountable to the public.

That means everyone.

They don't shut kids out.

They don't leave families out.

They don't decide that you get to make it in the door or don't get to make it in the door for whatever reason they deem necessary.

Our job is to serve the public.

And so what I would say is, you know, whatever the whatever the complaint may be about public education, blowing up an entire system and creating another system that is not accountable to you with your taxpayer dollars, that doesn't have to tell you what the superintendent salary is at the private school is not the answer to that.

Kentucky Democrats have united against amendment to no Democratic state lawmaker voted to put the school choice measure on the ballot, while Kentucky's Republican Party says it's not getting involved in this ballot measure.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Folks on both side of this debate say the ballot measure is not a partizan issue.

More than one in ten Republican lawmakers voted not to put the school choice amendment on the ballot this past legislative session.