Sentences with phrase «for parochial»

Insofar as the Minnesota statute provides a deduction for parochial school tuition, it provides a benefit to parochial schools that furthers the religious mission of those schools.

Some states offer benefits for parents paying for parochial - school tuition and supplies for children in kindergarten through high school.

During the late 19th century, Senator James Blaine of Maine, a nativist, sought to amend the U.S. Constitution to forbid state aid to religious schools, fearing that Catholic immigrants would want government funds for their parochial schools.

Despite the presence of Blaine Amendments in the state Constitution at the time of its decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a program in which public funds were used to purchase, among other things, textbooks for parochial schools.

The Indiana Attorney General wrote that providing free bus transportation for parochial school students on the same basis as public school students does not violate Indiana's Blaine Amendment because any benefit to parochial schools is incidental to the protection and education of children.

Until the 1970's, white southerners who wanted to maintain legal segregation of the races and the option of private schools for their own children, and northern Catholics who sought support for parochial schools comprised large blocks of Democratic votes.

Does he believe charter schools and vouchers for parochial schools will help improve outcomes in low performing school districts?

Alternatively, he must also examine whether arrangements like voucher systems for parochial and private schools would be better vehicles for his goals.

Named for the late - 19th - century senator James Blaine of Maine, the Blaine Amendments were intended to prevent Catholics from acquiring taxpayer support for their parochial schools.

The 71 % of Americans who rate private school education positively is only a bit higher than the 63 % positive rating for parochial schools but far outpaces the percentages for charter schools (55 %), home schooling (46 %) and public schools (44 %).

His responsibilities include training and helping teachers integrate technology in their classes, creating and managing the online course program, facilitating tech training for parents, and leading outreach and training initiatives for parochial schools in the San Diego area.

While recognizing that most of the deductions were used for parochial school tuition, the Mueller Court found that because parents could deduct expenses for public, private, or religious schools, the deduction was neutral toward religion.

In a complex yet constitutional process, Title I funds provided services to students in parochial schools through funds granted to the public school districts.The public districts — in addition to taking care of their own students — also purchased books and hired teachers for the parochial school students.

Students from around the state that day would encourage the Legislature to provide aid for parochial schools, and when Brother Thomas P. Draney of the Christian Brothers of Ireland suggested you might like to accept his invitation, you did.

The cuts made to the payroll tax that affects suburban commuters includes exemptions for parochial and private schools and businesses with payrolls under $ 1.25 million.

In a statement on social media, he noted some concern that some persons may be orchestrating the upsurge in crime for parochial motives.

So all but the most principled legislators ended up supporting this for parochial reasons.

The records should be set straight on this transaction, and any greedy bastard (who have sent this country begging on its knees) trading off our common goal for their parochial interest punished.

Addressing Muslims marking this year's Eid - Ul - Adha celebrations at the Independence Square in Accra Monday, the President warned against persons who take advantage of people's ignorance to misinform them for their parochial gains.

Language is being discussed that would allow for a $ 7,000 reimbursement for parochial and community - based organizations while a $ 10,000 reimbursement would be available for public schools.

As state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo consider a two - tiered reimbursement format for pre-Kindergarten teacher certification, advocates for both parochial and community - based organizations are pushing back.

This proposal would mean a badly needed boost in support for parochial schools in New York — schools that provide one - of - a-kind and enriching educational opportunities to young students across our state.

c) As a solid reference point for parochial catechesis it is necessary to have a nucleus of mature Christians, initiated into the faith, to whom different pastoral concerns can be entrusted d) While the preceding points refer mainly to adults, at the same time catechesis for children, adolescents, and young people which is always indispensable will also benefit greatly» (GDC 258)

Tracing the interest of the bishops of the Catholic Church in obtaining federal monies for parochial schools, the magazine recalled that the church leaders had sought to obtain funding and avoid the «impending danger of a judicial establishment of secularism from public life.»

And Protestants possessed a sense of unity as well, mostly when confronted by Catholics seeking public money for parochial schools or Jews seeking to oust Bible readings from public schools and other practices that seemed to cross the church - state line.

Not exact matches

He started wondering why corporate campuses, and corporate cultures for that matter, had to be so parochial.

That difference alone, with ignorant or parochial minds, is cause for prejudice.

But the whole thing left Albertans smarting over what they see as B.C.'s parochial disregard for their economic livelihood.

This is not a time for local leaders to be blinded by parochial interests.

Given the high risk for non-compliance, the Bar Council's parochial ban on virtual office is excessive.

Parochial schools are supported by church funds in addition to tuition, not tax dollars, providing in many areas a reasonable alternative for working class and middle class parishioners and removing these millions of students from the public education system paid for by taxpayers.

it as a former inmate of a Lutheran prison camp... I mean parochial school I can tell you they pay a dear price for it

Uh, no Jake, it's NOT a public school system, it's a parochial school system, so they routinely make allowances for religion.

The playoffs for the Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools (TAPPS) are set for this weekend.

Considering that this is a league for private and PAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tPAROCHIAL schools, and a Jewish Day School is as much a parochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tparochial school as a Christian school of any denomination (or any other recognized organized religion, for that matter), it's a shame that TAPPS and other similar organizations not support a decision of faith as, at a minimum, an expression of tolerance.

Imagine the reverse situation: TAPPS is Tel - Aviv Association for Private and Parochial Schools... games are routinely scheduled for Sundays (yom rishon, work day in Israel).

State and federal courts and mediators are dealing with hundreds of Native American land claims, and indigenous tribes in the U.S. and Canada have filed suits demanding reparations for various crimes, such as the abuse of students in parochial and government - run schools.

But the term nowaways usually connotes, in the words of my dictionary, a «set of general unexamined assumptions,» and these are for the most part simply the parochial prejudices of one's time and place.

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

For Protestants, a church school with teachers, subject matter, curriculum resources, age - graded classes, supplies, equipment, classrooms and, if possible, a professional church educator has been the norm; for Roman Catholics, parochial schools or some other form of catechetiFor Protestants, a church school with teachers, subject matter, curriculum resources, age - graded classes, supplies, equipment, classrooms and, if possible, a professional church educator has been the norm; for Roman Catholics, parochial schools or some other form of catechetifor Roman Catholics, parochial schools or some other form of catechetics.

Whether it is Lutheran social service agencies in the Midwest or Presbyterian parochial schools in New Mexico (founded because the Catholics so dominated the territory's few public schools) or Jewish philanthropies in New York or the ubiquitous Catholic hospitals and Protestant colleges throughout the land, religions have provided much of the social (and financial) capital for building local communities.

I was raised Catholic, went to parochial school for elementary school and high school, but lost that devotion as I grew older and busier in my daily life.

What else can we invent about them to mask our own inconsistencies and striving for power and domination over the resources of our parochial worlds?»

A grand jury report, released in February, not only led to charges against four priests and one parochial school teacher but has opened the floodgates for civil litigation.

The question of whether Catholic parochial - school children were to ride public school buses free of charge drew more ink and blood than the cause of justice for women or blacks.

We should have selective nostalgia for unions, just as we should have the same for the vital and deeply judgmental parishes of the fifties with their affordable parochial schools.

In fact, the universality of religion makes it peculiarly useful for the sanctification of imperious and parochial group interests.

I am a recovered Catholic - after spending my formative years in parochial school, I chose to start thinking for myself.

And for all its claim to fashionable multiculturalism («Women from the dominant culture, class, and ethnic group — especially in the United States — need to be careful not to generalize our experience as that of all women,» writes Ringe), the book is laughably parochial, designed strictly for Americans.

Theologians in the «60s, discovering that the biblicism and antiscientism of their Barthian forebears would no longer serve as a defense against secular attacks, cast: about for a preserve of true religious experience that could not be explained away as just one of many parochial perspectives on the universe.