How is SCOTUS holding hearings if the Chief Justice is presiding over the Impeachment?
I wish people could direct their property taxes to the school of their choice.
Fine! Dont fund private schools but give those who send their kids to one a tax break equivalent to the amount it would have cost the government to educate the kid in a public school. Nobody really wants government interfering in private education. The exception being the ggovernment itself
We don’t want public funding, especially federal.
Strings, if not attached now, will be attached at some point in the future.
Much simpler to switch to sales tax funding instead of property taxes. Better yet, privatize all public schools.
NPR stations right in the most conservative parts of our country have been broadcasting hateful rants from their university hosts to slander us and the President over the past couple of days. I wonder why people in flyover country tolerate that propaganda in their midst, not to mention the garbage being injected into the minds of their young people in those anti-American commie command centers (the universities).
My aunt, Irish Catholic, was the first person I know of on either side of my family who got a four year degree. It was in education, in Missouri. Because of the Blaine act and the KKK, she wasn’t able to get a job as a teacher in the 30s.
Add me to the list of people that don’t want direct government funding of parochial schools. Vouchers, or tax refunds for tuition is preferable.
other religious schools likely would grab at it, but if Christian schools were biblical they would not want tax payer/federal monies.
Montana’s clause is one of 37 “Blaine Amendments” passed by states in the late 19th century. They are named for James Blaine, a former Speaker of the House (1869-1875), Senator (1876-1881) and Secretary of State (1889-1892) from Maine who pushed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring funding of “sectarian” causes and organizations.
At that time, opponents of the law say, Blaine’s effort mainly targeted Catholic schools and institutions. His amendment failed at the federal level but many states including Montana inserted similar language in their constitutions.
Just like prohibition, Maine was on the forefront of being a nanny state, except it was conservatives pushing it. By 1919 Maine became the deciding progressive vote for women’s suffrage again spearheaded by conservatives.
Will that funding include madrassas?