MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday asked a court to overturn a decision by a high school athletics association that blocks students on the state’s new school voucher program from participating in athletics their first year in a new school.

Ivey and House Speaker Nathanial Ledbetter filed the complaint in Montgomery Circuit Court against the Alabama High School Athletic Association. They are asking a judge to block the association’s ruling on eligibility and pave the way for the students to participate in athletics this year.

The CHOOSE Act, which went into effect this school year, allows eligible families to tap up to $7,000 in state funding to help pay for private school or to transfer to a public school, and up to $2,000 for homeschooling expenses.

The associati

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