A Michigan Court of Appeals held that a statute permitting local school districts to furnish transportation without charge for students of state - approved private schools did not violate Michigan's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 4) because the statute's intended and actual effect was to assist parents in complying with state compulsory education laws while recognizing their right to send their children to religious schools. (edchoice.org)
Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular. (firstthings.com)
Currently, California has 912 charter schools serving more than 365,000 students, the largest number of charter schools and students of any state in the nation. (ccsa.org)