Posted on 12/01/2022 10:18:22 AM PST by GulliverSwift
Parents in Vermont can now use the state’s tuition assistance for towns without public education at faith-based schools, attorneys announced Thursday, ending a 20-year dispute.
The Vermont settlement was filed in court papers Wednesday, said the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented two parents and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burlington, Vermont, in suits against Education Secretary Daniel M. French.
ADF legal counsel Paul Schmitt said in a statement, “For more than two decades, Vermont unlawfully excluded religious schools and their students from public benefits, essentially eliminating school choice for many parents in the state. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently concluded in Carson v. Makin, the government cannot eliminate families’ benefits just because they choose to use those benefits at religious schools that provide religious instruction.”
Mr. French, in a letter to Vermont schools, said the June 21 high court ruling in the Maine case — which also centered on state tuition payments being used at religious schools — influenced the Vermont decision.
“Requests for tuition payments for resident students to approved independent religious schools or religious independent schools that meet educational quality standards must be treated the same as requests for tuition payments to secular approved independent schools or secular independent schools that meet educational quality standards,” Mr. French wrote.
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It’s a bad deal if the state tells the schools what to teach, which will happen eventually.
It’s also a bad deal if somebody decides to open a Muslim school.
Then what? Taxpayer money funds an organization that believes infidels are deserving of death.
Well, we crossed that bridge when Bush was president. The answer is yes. If you are going to fund Christian schools then you have to fund Muslim ones.
Plus and minus but I don’t think you could ever win in court trying to do something else.
“Government” money always comes with strings attached.
These schools would be smart to say, “No thank you.”
Bingo!
Following major win in Maine on the same issue. Life is better with a conservative scotus.
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