Constitution Party Adopts Resolution Opposing Tax-Funded School Choice

The Constitution Party National Committee adopted a resolution during its seasonal meeting this month, declaring opposition to tax-funded school choice programs and calling for state legislatures nationwide to nullify or repeal them.

The resolution was adopted October 18 during the party’s Fall National Committee Meeting and Issues Conference in Sparks, Nevada. According to details shared online, the measure was introduced by the Constitution Party of New Hampshire and is the second national resolution proposed by that affiliate.

Quoting both the Tenth Amendment and 19th-century constitutional theorist John Taylor, the resolution asserts that the federal government has no authority to fund or regulate education. It argues that programs such as Education Savings Accounts and vouchers violate private property rights and blur the line between public and private schooling, inviting government oversight into home and religious education. It further describes parental authority as “sacred” and identifies the family as the “first and foundational unit of government.”

“The State does not own children, and it has no rightful claim over the direction of their education, particularly when such education is privately funded or directed within the home,” the resolution states. It further warns that rebranding Education Savings Accounts as public education represents a “Trojan horse for expanded government regulation, surveillance, and eventual control over private and home education.”

The measure also cites the Constitution Party’s national platform several times, including its support for the “unimpeded right of parents” to direct their children’s education and oppose legislation that interferes with that liberty. It declares that tax-funded subsidies for non-public education are “unconstitutional, immoral, and incompatible with the principles of individual liberty, private property, and family sovereignty.”

“The Constitution Party calls upon the legislatures of all fifty states to nullify, reject, and repeal any existing tax-funded programs that subsidize private, religious, or home education, and to refrain from enacting any such programs in the future,” the resolution closes. “We urge all who value liberty to oppose this deceptive promise of state-funded ‘choice’ and to defend the necessary wall of separation between education and state control.”