Sentences with phrase «of sending a child to a religious school»

Though African Americans appear slightly more likely to support the option of sending a child to a religious school, subgroup differences on this matter are small (Q. 9).

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In all of the countries of the European Union (except Greece and Italy) and in Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Japan, parents can choose to send their children to nongovernment schools (usually including religious schools) and receive government tax dollars to pay for tuition.

If the government were to fine a parent $ 10 for sending his or her child to a religious school, everyone would recognize this as an unconstitutional penalty on the exercise of religious freedom.

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

Just last term, the Court upheld the use of school vouchers even if parents elect to use them to send their children to religious schools (Zelman v. Simmons - Harris [2002]-RRB-.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

If you want god in your children's classroom, send them to a school run by a religious organization... public tax dollars should not be covering the teaching of god in any form, unless the church wants to start paying taxes.

Since historically, separationist rhetoric was used to pass Blaine Amendments that forced poorer Catholic parents to send their children to Protestant («public») schools, church - state separation may erroneously seem to exclude certain religious groups from the full benefits of citizenship.

We would question the legality of extending the faith of a school's curriculum beyond RE and Collective Worship, as parents are often forced to send their children to a «faith» school and these parents and children will have their human rights broken if they are not able to escape from the religious ethos of the school.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

Mr. Dolan and Mr. Rodriguez, a Democrat, both highlighted that the measure — which they argued would allow more parents to send their children to religious schools — cleared the Republican - run State Senate in January, and that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie have both endorsed versions of the abatement.

Most Council members had two unstated reasons for supporting Greenfield in using tax money to fund religious schools: they either have constituents who would like their choice to send their children to these schools to be further subsidized or they want to buy themselves good will with the increasingly powerful and cohesive blocs of Orthodox, fundamentalist, and Catholic voters should they decide to seek higher office.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choice.

The show, set on Manhattan's Upper West Side, follows six Jewish singles as they juggle social, religious, and communal pressures on their journey to finding that ever - elusive true love — or at least someone who would agree on what type of school to send their future children to.

It is still possible that adults who attended religious schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who send children to non-religious private schools do not appear to yield lower anti-Semitism.

And we do not typically think of families who choose to send their children to mostly Christian religious schools as doing so because of a particular affinity toward Jews.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

This idea would probably sound odd to parents who send their children to any religious school — whether Catholic, Jewish, or evangelical — since character building is one of the foundations of the education excellence these institutions pride themselves on.

In its 2002 decision in Zelman v. Simons - Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubt as to whether the use of government funds to send children to religious schools violates the First Amendment's ban on the «establishment of religion.»

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

In that hypothetical, 34 % of parents say they would send their child to a public school, but 31 % would choose a private school, 17 % a charter school, and 14 % a religious school.

Like many other types of school choice, educational tax credits enable parents to send their children to the K - 12 school of their choice, public or private, religious or non-religious.

Only slightly more than half of public school parents (54 %) say they'd stick with a public school if they were offered public funds to send their child to a private or religious school.

Many of these people would prefer to be sending their children to religious schools or other non-public schools, but they're forced to fund a public system (and not exactly an excellent system either).

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.

If parents choose to send their children to a religious school, then the taxpayers of Indiana should not be required to support that religious school.

One of the proposed amendments would permit parents to use state - funded vouchers to send their children to private schools in Florida, including religious schools.

It is feared that even more will be missing as the most extreme families home - school their children from birth or send them to extreme religious schools from the age of three and the children therefore never make it to educational records in the first place.

However, school districts are also required to spend a «proportionate share» of their federal funds on services for children whose parents choose to send them to private schools within the district, whether religious or non-religious.

Ms. DeVos, a staunch supporter of vouchers who attended and sent her children to religious schools, said the decision affirmed that «religious discrimination in any form can not be tolerated in a society that values the First Amendment.»

What of the claims for equality of treatment of those parents who, because of religious scruples, can not send their children to public schools?

The president's budget features a $ 1.4 billion school choice package that includes millions of dollars in vouchers that low - income families could use to send their children to private, religious schools.

In Finland, the government provides funding for basic education at all levels, and instruction is free of charge.3 In Sweden, schooling is «free,» and parents are able to choose their children's schools; funding even follows the student when they change schools.4 In Portugal, the Ministry of Education finances the public sector in its entirety, and the state subsidizes each student in private schools.5 In Germany, the Netherlands, England, Northern Ireland, and Sweden, «public funding is provided so that families can choose to send their children to schools with a religious character.»

Up to $ 10,000 can be distributed annually from a 529 plan to cover the cost of sending a child to a public, private, or religious elementary or secondary school.