lawmakers weren't informed of who applied.

The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy delivered a report on the potential impact of amendment 2.

That's the school choice ballot measures that Kentucky voters will decide on this fall if passed.

Amendment 2 would allow state funding to be used for charter schools and other non public educational centers.

>> Amendment 2 would dramatically overturned Kentucky's constitutional commitment to public education.

It would suspend 7 sections of the Constitution.

>> And it would undermine the requirement that adequate and equitable state funding of public education by allowing that mandate to be met by also funding private education.

We're in education outside of the system.

The common schools.

Hearing Kentucky, while 90% of kids go to public schools, there are 15,000 children currently rolling private school and nearly 40,000 their home school.

Providing vouchers to those families based on the typical costs about trees and other states would cost hundreds of millions dollars annually.

Nearly half of Kentucky counties have no problem.

Schools at all.

And the majority of existing private schools are clustered in just 3 counties.

Jefferson it in Canton.

80% of Kentucky private schools are in just 8% of the state's zip codes.

>> The majority of our funding comes from state sources.

And as you get into the more were all the more level socio economic, the lower to a more land poor districts rely more heavily on these state revenue for schools.

>> as it's been, >> you know, described here, the vast majority of these vouchers would then be allocated to students and would be with a move that money from these rural communities into the more urban areas of Lexington will.

And in northern Kentucky, the average household income of a private school failing Kentucky's $148,000 a year far exceeding the income of the typical public school household.

>> There's no regulation to both the private and to the home schools.

Anybody can just there's educational requirements.

There's there's there's no background.

There's no accountability to these the schools, but that if a system is creating where vouchers could not only get the state is going to private schools, but they also got home school.

Imagine you take a low-income family with Reese, Theresa checked, you school-age children and you offer them $5,000 a year to homeschool their children.

That could be $15,000 a year.

In cash money.

>> The family to not educate their children are not that those children into school.

>> However, some school choice advocates say that the amendment wouldn't officially set any policy regarding charter school funding.

It would just give the General Assembly that ability.

We talked about it with 2 guests on our Kentucky tonight program on June 10th.

>> All this does it takes the handcuffs off and it says the legislation that gets to make these decisions, the people get to make these decisions.

If this amendment passes and a one, nothing changes of that means is that the legislators, it things change in the since the legislators get to make decisions but nothing changes in terms of public policy.

That's up for the legislators to the side.

I think that some of the jurisprudence in Kentucky history has kind of strayed from the original understanding of sections.

1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 86.

What this what this amendment does is it says no matter what the section say, no matter what the sections might restrict.

We're now going to allow the legislators to make policy has been public money on on whatever school they won't let common schools, public charter schools, whatever educational programs they want.

This brings us more into line with other states as well that have wide ranging educational freedom opportunities.

I think what we can do is really doing outstanding job with the policy, the creation of school choice policy by looking at whether states what's worked and what hasn't worked there.

This will this will allow a full debate to take place.

>> With legislators knowing that whatever they pass, it's not necessarily going to get stopped in court because of constitutional issues.

It's really like a it's like a Bush hog.

I wrote this in a column recently talked to Bush hog kind of clearing the way for that debate to take place.

>> You can see that full program online on-demand, akt Dot org Slash K white tonight.