While lawmakers are fast tracking proposed a ballot question that could be put to Kentucky voters in November.

And a special called meeting today, the Senate Education Committee approved House Bill two along party lines, sending it to the full Senate for debate.

The measure just passed the House yesterday.

The bill calls for adding a constitutional amendment to the ballot, asking Kentucky voters if the General Assembly should have the ability to provide financial support for students outside of public schools.

In a statement, the Family Foundation, a Christian public policy organization in Kentucky, said, quote, States all across the nation are allowing for diverse educational choices, including popular school choice programs that are benefiting students and families and public schools, private homes and home schools.

Kentucky must not be left behind.

Jim Waters, president and CEO of the self-described free market think tank the Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, also backs the bill.

This amendment is not about any particular type of school choice policy.

This is not about implementing a voucher program or a scholarship tax credit program or even a public school choice program.

This simply is responding to past court decisions.

That said, if you want to have school choice in Kentucky of any type, you're going to have to amend the Constitution to address that.

And that's all this does.

It gets out of the Bush Hogg and clears out the underbrush so that we have a path toward choice.

The debate about what kinds of choice we should have, very important.

And they need them.

They need to be fully vetted.

But that's for another day and another time.

The Kentucky Education Association, of course, opposes the bill.

President and Knox County music teacher Eddie Campbell testified against it this afternoon.

Despite its presentation.

It will be detrimental to our Kentucky public school system's opening the door for public tax dollars to stream into unaccountable private institutions with no public oversight.

This is a dangerous bill that is bad education policy, bad fiscal policy and bad public policy.

And it does nothing to protect students and does nothing to ensure that all students in Kentucky will receive a high quality public education.