Senate Passes School Bill

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...A bill, sponsored by Republican Senator Dan Seum of Louisville, passed Tuesday by a partisan vote of 21-15 would allow parents in Jefferson County to send their children to the schools nearest their homes. Seum said after the vote that the bill's chances aren't good in the House. Democratic Senator Gerald Neal of Louisville spoke against the bill and offered three floor amendments seen by supporters as "unfriendly" measures to kill the bill. One, however, did pass 35-3. It would make the measure apply to all school districts rather than Jefferson County only.