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Utah Voters Reject Subsidized School Voucher Program

HeadlineNov 07, 2007

Local and gubernatorial elections were held in states around the country Tuesday. In Kentucky, Steve Beshear won an upset victory over incumbent Governor Ernie Fletcher. In Mississippi, Republican Governor Haley Barbour was re-elected to a second term. In Maryland, Sheila Dixon become the first African-American woman elected mayor of Baltimore. In Texas, Mayor Bill White was re-elected to a final two-year term. In Utah, voters overwhelmingly rejected the nation’s first statewide voucher program that would have subsidized private schools. With a Republican governor and legislature, Utah’s rejection was seen as a major defeat for Republican-backed school voucher proponents.

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