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The teachers union crafted CDC guidelines to keep schools closed longer.
Second Circuit Rules Vermont Can’t Exclude Religious Schools From Tuition Program
The U.S Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has ruled that Vermont can’t exclude students attending religious schools from state-sponsored tuition programs, striking down the state’s long-standing prohibition on public funding for those institutions.
Vermont’s Town Tuition Program (TTP), one of the oldest of its kind in the United States, provides educational vouchers for students living in towns that don’t have public schools. The program allows a designated “tuition town” to directly pay tuition to the school of student’s choice, which can be public, secular private, or home school in or outside Vermont.
The case was brought last September by families who applied to their tuition towns for funding under the TTP, but their requests were denied because the schools they attend are deemed “too religious.” Their complaint alleged that Vermont Agency of Education and had engaged in discrimination by denying religious schools access to TTP funding.
“The government is constitutionally required to treat religious people equally,” said Ryan Tucker, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group representing the plaintiffs in the case. “As the U.S. Supreme Court has held, denying public benefits because of religion violates the First Amendment’s Free Exercise Clause because it unconstitutionally forces families to choose between exercising their religion or enjoying a publicly available benefit.”
In its opinion released Wednesday, the appeals court sided with the suing students and parents, saying that Vermont’s education officials had maintained their discriminatory policy even after last year’s Supreme Court ruling.
“Last June, the Court clarified that this rule does not allow a state to apply a state constitutional prohibition on aid to religion that would bar religious schools from public benefits solely because of the religious character of the schools,” the opinion reads. “The officials who administer Vermont’s Town Tuition Program nevertheless continued to discriminate against religious schools and students in violation of the First Amendment.”
“The Supreme Court has made clear that the prevailing practice in Vermont—maintaining a policy of excluding religious schools from the TTP—is unconstitutional,” the judges wrote.
In June 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Montana can create a tax-credit scholarship program for private schools, even if it would mean that most money goes to religious schools.
“A State need not subsidize private education,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts in the 5-4 decision. “But once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”
Another ADF lawsuit!
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In Japan are teachers respected but they likely deserve it.
America is not doomed by diversity though, we just have to stress unity as Americans to overcome the obvious enormous harms of diversity.
She's fat enough that it may actually be a danger to her.
Patrick saysAmerica is not doomed by diversity though, we just have to stress unity as Americans to overcome the obvious enormous harms of diversity.
It hasn’t been done I think, because it’s too easy to divide. We have very little that unites us right now, it worries me.
We have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it
richwicks saysWe have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it
Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government. The libs see big government as the method to get even with the rich and redistribute wealth to themselves.
richwicks saysWe have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it
Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government.
I don't understand how she can ignore the easily available evidence.
HeadSet saysrichwicks saysWe have a common enemy - our government. Liberals hate it
Liberals hate it? I see liberals always on the march for bigger, more intrusive government. The libs see big government as the method to get even with the rich and redistribute wealth to themselves.
Yes, seems that way to me too.
Just like nuts gravitate to psychology, weirdos gravitate to teaching.
This is why leftists can pivot from "Watch out for the Media and Big Pharma" to "Praise the Media and Big Pharma" in a minute without neck injuries.
when I ran into some spiked hair makeup wearing goth freak, 90%+ change it was an psychology. I knew like 1 engineering student who was like that.
So true though, the left is absolutely in love love love with mega-corporations now, the bigger and more evil the better, with Pfizer at the top.
very cynical
Yep! Because they control them. Before, when they didn't, corporations were controlled by the "Man".
Among the material associated with a Maryland public school's five-day social justice summer course is a slide that identifies the phrase "Make America Great Again" as a type of "Covert White Supremacy."
The slogan, often abbreviated "MAGA," has been a staple of Donald Trump's political career.
Judicial Watch obtained the slide and other materials related to Thomas Pyle Middle School's course titled "Reading and Taking Action for Social Justice."
"The enclosed materials were prepared to include in the class; however, many of the materials were not shared with students," according to the cover letter provided along with the course records. It also states that the class "took place July 13 through July 17, 2020 and met for 50 minutes each day. No grades were given and no actual work was due."
The middle school is connected with Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland, a school district that awarded more than $454,000 for an "Anti-racist System...
I would put you somewhere on the optimistic side of realist.
It’s bad being an optimist. I’ve been angry for so long. I don’t want to be angry anymore. I want to be at peace and pessimism is good for that.
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Now the teachers unions have managed to also fuck over working parents. People with jobs are expected to quit them to stay home with the kids and homeschool them. Regardless of their budgets of course. The only thing that matters to the teachers is that they get to stay home and still get paid.
Now the LA Unified School District has authorized free daycare for teachers who are parents, so they have someplace other than home (which is where they will be) to send their rug rats so they won’t have to care for them while “teaching online” everyone else’s kids who don’t get free day care.
In my neighborhood there are several gyms which have opened as daycare/schools able to provide daycare for school aged kids with staff who can help the kids with their online lessons. This costs $155-200/week and goes until 3PM same as a regular school day. Working parents who can’t be home with their kids to help them are expected to shell out $650-800/month per kid to “educate” their kids while public schools we all pay for are shuttered because teachers are scared of Covid. But NOT too scared to send their own kids to day cares as long as the school district pays for that!
Fuck teachers unions. Seriously.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/los-angeles-school-district-teachers-000213726.html
It’s in the article, buried:
“Teachers also will be provided with child care.”