The Moscow School District is not paying for the lawsuit challenging House Bill 93, said Superintendent Shawn Tiegs.

The district joined a coalition that filed a lawsuit with the Idaho Supreme Court this week seeking to block the state’s new private education tax credit . After the Moscow school board voted Tuesday to join the lawsuit, supporters of HB 93 slammed the district for using taxpayer money to finance it.

But this wasn’t true, Tiegs said Friday. Moscow isn’t paying attorney fees to Hawley Troxell, the Boise-based law firm hired to argue the case. And the district has “zero financial liability,” regardless of the result, he said.

Moscow joined the lawsuit because taxpayer-funded private education should have to play by the same rules as public education, Tiegs said.

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