religious schools

Should Ontario Cut Funding for Catholic Separate Schools? This age-old question is at the forefront of a legal challenge launched in Hamilton.The plaintiffs claim that funding Catholic schools is unconstitutional, violates the separation…

SALEM, Ore. — Oregon is leading a coalition of states and the District of Columbia intervening in a class…

The United States Supreme Court heard argument on Wednesday in cases involving state funding of private religious schools and proceedings for inmates challenging their convictions because of an incompetent lawyer.In Carson vs. Makin, the…

Legal experts have predicted that the U.S. Supreme Court will find that Maine's ban on funding religious schools violates the U.S. Constitution after oral argument before judges on Wednesday. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey…

Two Maine families on Wednesday asked the United States Supreme Court to expand taxpayer support for religious schools by demanding a state tuition assistance program to include sectarian and non-sectarian institutions.The case, which has…

The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a case challenging a Maine law that bans public funding of religious schools. The Carson v. Makin is one of the few in Maine to have been taken to the High…

By CHRISTIAN WADE THE PLACE DU CENTER CONTRIBUTOR (The Center Square) - The United States Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a lawsuit in Maine challenging a state law prohibiting the use of tuition funds for…

New York City is extending a COVID-19 vaccine mandate to teachers and staff in private and religious schools, a plan that would affect approximately 56,000 employees in 938 New York City schools. This decision creates a potential clash…

(The Center Square) - The United States Supreme Court to hear arguments next week in a lawsuit in Maine…

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and 18 other state attorneys general are seeking to scrap Trump-era measures that relaxed anti-discrimination rules for religious schools. Three Oregon students are…

SALEM, Oregon - Oregon is leading a coalition of states and the District of Columbia in a class action lawsuit against the federal…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Attorney General Bill Barr backs new Supreme Court amicus brief, led by Democratic lawyer David Boies, opposing Maine's decision to prevent public tuition fees from going to students who choose to attend religious…

At the top of the new religious school building of the Temple Israel Ner Tamid is the founding text of the…

Parents scored a victory in June 2020 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that school choice programs must be religion neutral. The notice meant the government should neither favor nor oppose Maine farmers Troy and Angela Nelson,…

By PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated PressPORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The United States Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it would hear a case brought by families in Maine who want to use a state schooling program to send their children to religious…

The United States Supreme Court announced Friday that it would hear a case challenging Maine's ban on funding religious schools by Maine, challenging a state law by families in Glenburn, Orrington and Palermo before the Most high…

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it would hear a case against Maine's ban on using state-provided financial aid to allow students to attend religious schools. The case, Carson vs. Makin, challenges a policy by the Maine Department of…

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it would hear a case brought by families in Maine who want to use a state schooling program to send their children to religious schools. At the heart of the matter is a rule…

The Supreme Court has decided it will hear a case against Maine's ban on using financial aid through a state program to attend religious schools, the court announced Friday.The families disputed a Maine Department of Education policy that…

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Gordon L. Weil previously wrote for the…

A federal appeals court on Wednesday explained its decision to prevent Vermont from excluding tuition funding for students attending a religious school, saying a lower court ruling earlier this year did not go far enough to achieve it.The…

By KATHY McCORMACK, Associated PressA federal appeals court on Wednesday explained its decision to prevent Vermont from excluding tuition funding for students attending a religious school, saying a lower court ruling earlier this year did…

A federal appeals court on Wednesday explained its decision to prevent Vermont from excluding tuition funding for students attending a religious school, saying a lower court ruling earlier this year did not go far enough to achieve it.…

When the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that public funding could not be used for worship or religious education but could be used for secular classes in religious schools, it left school districts at a standstill.Local school boards…

A teacher who says she was fired from a Sydney religious school for her sexuality spoke of the "devastating" experience. Karen Pack worked at Morling College, a Baptist educational institution in Sydney, for two years. However, after…

By GARRY RAYNO, InDepthNH.org CONCORDE - The Blaine State Amendment banning state funding of religious schools is a stain on the state's reputation, supporters of its repeal have said through a proposed constitutional amendment…

Preschoolers and students in religious schools at the Beth Samuel Jewish Center should celebrate Purim the same way thousands of other children will this year: on Zoom. On February 21, BSJC will feature stories and songs, followed by…

Fahrorazi Sohoi is said to have taught at the unregistered FR Coran Center on Onan Road (pictured) near Joo Chiat. - TODAY photo SINGAPORE, January 29 - A Muslim religious school is under investigation for operating without…

Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington is at the center of a lawsuit filed on behalf of families seeking payment of tuition fees for students. Photo by Jim Welch / VTDigger A federal appeals judge ruled that three Vermont school…

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the exclusion of a Catholic school student from a Vermont program allowing some high school students to duplicate college courses at state expense was likely unconstitutional under recent…

The Supreme Court Thursday refused to block Executive Order of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear suspending in-person teaching at most K-12 schools, including religious schools, until year-end, noting that the executive order "effectively…

The Kentucky case presented a related but separate issue. In ordering the temporary closure of all K-12 schools, Mr. Beshear did not choose religious schools.In a lawsuit challenging the ordinance, Danville Christian Academy and Daniel…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block an order by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that bars in-person K-12 instruction through early January in areas hard hit by COVID-19, rejecting a plea from a private religious…

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a request by a Kentucky religious school to be exempted from a public health decree closing all K-12 campuses across the state. But the court, noting that the order was…

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block an order by…

By MARK SHERMAN and PIPER HUDSPETH BLACKBURNWASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to block an order by Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear that bars in-person K-12 instruction through early January in areas hard hit by COVID-19,…

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A Kentucky religious school has asked the United States Supreme Court for emergency aid following a state order that closed all public and private schools from Kindergarten to Grade 12. State for in-person education amid the resurgence…

The Kentucky attorney general is suing his own governor in an attempt to keep private religious schools open, despite the state's order for virtual classes during the coronavirus pandemic.An emergency hearing took place on Monday after…

A lawyer for three Maine families challenging the state's ban on public funding of religious schools sees the addition of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court as cause for optimism after justices of two lower courts have…

Today is Thursday. Temperatures will be between 20 and 40 degrees north to south, with partly sunny skies to the south and increasing clouds to the north. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today. Here is the latest news…

Advocates for public schools urged the Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday to reverse payments from the Michigan legislature to non-public schools, arguing they violate a constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1970 that prohibits…

Three Maine families plan to go to the nation's highest court to challenge a federal appeals court ruling that Maine state law rightly excludes religious schools from the high school curriculum in the state. The The first…

Croydon residents Dennis and Cathy Griffin have been sending their grandson Clayton, now 12, to Mount Royal Academy, a kindergarten to grade 12 Catholic school in Sunapee, since he was in first grade. Now they say a recent US Supreme…

The Houston Congregation for Reform Judaism proves that the values ​​and lessons learned from a Jewish education are invaluable.The synagogue announced on June 30 that it would waive religious school…

The United States Supreme Court today ruled that two elementary school teachers in religious schools could not pursue their allegations of discrimination based on age and disability. The court found that employees such as teachers in…

WASHINGTON - A Supreme Court ruling Tuesday against Montana's exclusion of religious schools from a state scholarship program may have been narrowly worded, but denominational education victory has breathed new life into life in much…

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday delivered a big victory to parents seeking state assistance for child custody religious school education.Conservative majority in court ruled 5-4 that states offering scholarships to students in…

JEFFERSON CITY — Workers paid by the hour at private and religious schools in Missouri could be exempt from state minimum wage law under legislation approved in the House Thursday.In a 94-53 vote, the House approved a plan…

MONTREAL - Boisbriand, Quebec is only about a half hour drive north of Montreal. But for members of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group who live in the off-island suburbs, Montreal might as well be another planet, a former member…

Supreme Court hears school choice and religious freedom caseThe Supreme Court hears arguments in Espinoza v. Montana, a case concerning state scholarship funds and prohibition of use in parochial schools.USA TODAYWASHINGTON — The Supreme…

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WASHINGTON - A potentially historic education case in Supreme Court on Wednesday drew heavy hitters on both sides of the school choice debate as they try to shape a decision that could end decades of bickering over school vouchers and…

Twenty years ago, United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued an appeal to arms, in a case in which the court upheld the use of federal aid for education in schools private nuns for the loan of library books, computers…

The First Amendment protects the right of a private religious school to pray before a football match, especially when both teams are from religious schools and have the same tradition of pre-match prayer over loudspeakers. Yet the Florida…

In Wales we have a serious problem with our religious schools. Let me describe a situation that happens all the time in our current education system. There's a secondary school down a street in a city like Cardiff. This school is a!-->…

In the western part of the state, the "Citizen Times" reports that a conservative religious school that receives a third of Buncombe County's scholarships teaches students that homosexuality is a sin. The Temple Baptist School in…

When I told her that we weren't going to baptize our children, my mother-in-law was not happy."I just can't bear the thought of these beautiful children floating around in purgatory," she said.I stopped to think of all the unbaptized…

HELENA - The Montana Supreme Court heard arguments on Friday over reinstating a ban on tax credits for donations to scholarships for students attending private religious schools.Montana revenue officials and public education advocates have…

The Orthodox community was rocked last month when Malky Klein, 20, daughter of Avrohom and Rifka Klein of Boro Park, died of a heroin overdose. Social networks inundated with tearful thinking. A podcast interview with Klein's dad went…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a lower court ruling banning the use of public funds to pay for children's attendance at private religious schools, a day after handing down a landmark ruling reducing the…

The United States Supreme Court has ruled that a religious school can receive taxpayer funds for a playground. The ruling came in the case of a church in Columbia, Missouri, which operates a day care center and preschool as part of its…

A row over Adam and Eve between a city-paid teacher and third-grade students at a private Muslim school has landed the instructor in pedagogical purgatory, The Post has learned. Nina KosmanJC Rice English teacher Nina Kossman…

Religion-based American high schools are proving particularly effective at training graduates who become civic adults, according to a new study by researchers with Cardus Religious Schools Initiative (CRSI) at the University of…

Yamanlar College, a private school established by educators affiliated with the Gülen movement in the western province of Izmir, has been transformed into a religious vocational school, part of a group known as "imam-hatip" high…

Mike Hanley lost the most senior position in education in Alaska for the same reason that makes lasting school improvement difficult: political interference.Vague explanations for Hanley's dismissal and the non-renewal of Ed Graff's…

MULTAN, Pakistan— Tashfeen Malik, who made a deadly shooting in California with her husband last week, studied after college at a conservative Islamic religious school here that attracts relatively well-educated and…

MULTAN, Pakistan - The Pakistani woman who carried out the mass shooting in California with her husband last week had already spent a year studying at a conservative religious school for women in the southern Pakistani city, officials said…