Carol Blood
(State Senator – D)
Carol Blood, a Democratic state senator from Bellevue (District 3, 2017–2025) and the party’s 2022 nominee for governor, voted against both of Nebraska’s private-school scholarship laws.
- On LB 753, the 2023 Opportunity Scholarships Act, she voted against cloture on General File and on Final Reading, and against final passage on May 24, 2023, which passed 33-11 (Legislative Journal, 108th Leg., 1st Sess., pp. 704, 1698, 1700).
- On LB 1402, the 2024 state-funded scholarships that replaced it: she voted to indefinitely postpone, bracket and recommit the bill; voted against cloture three times; and voted against final passage on April 18, 2024, which passed 32-14 (Legislative Journal, 108th Leg., 2nd Sess., pp. 1593, 1597, 1600, 1601, 1659, 1809, 1810).
In 2022 she told the Nebraska Examiner: “I believe in public dollars for public schools with no exceptions.”
Connie Duncan
(School Board – NP)
Ms. Duncan (Lincoln, NE) sent her own children to private schools, but fights against school choice for low-income families.
John Cavanaugh
(State Senator – NP)
Mr. Cavanaugh attended private school himself, and sent his own children to private school. He votes against giving poor children that same privilege.
Lynne Walz
(State Senator – D)
Senator Walz sent her children to a private school, but opposes programs that would allow low-income families to do the same.
Sally Nellson Barrett
(Exec. Dir. I Love Public Schools)
Nellson Barrett’s organization has made over 100 films extolling the virtues of Nebraska’s government schools. She chooses to send her own kids to private schools, however.
Steve Lathrop
(State Senator – D)
Senator Lathrop sent his kids to a private Catholic school, but opposes allowing low-income families the same opportunities.