Sentences with phrase «religious nonpublic schools»

The $ 10 million plan would provide vouchers for as many as 1,500 city students to attend secular or religious nonpublic schools this coming fall.

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In some schools, chiefly nonpublic ones, the sexes are segregated, and in other schools racial and religious factors are crucial in deciding which students will be taught together.

Partisans of parochial schools, understandably concerned with rising costs and sincerely dedicated to both the religious and secular educational missions of their schools, would inevitably champion aid to nonpublic schools and promote political action to achieve their goals.

A federal judge has questioned the constitutionality of two New York State programs that loan computer software and library books to nonpublic schools, including religious institutions.

Moreover, religious families, whose values may encourage larger family sizes, are more likely to use nonpublic and parochial schools.

a nonpublic school controlled by or affiliated with a religious organization may separate students on the basis of sex to the extent that such separation is required by the religious tenets of such organization.

Public schools depend mainly on local, state, and federal funds, and private schools usually gain support mainly from tuition, with some funds coming from other nonpublic sources such as religious organizations, endowments, grants, and charitable donations.

As a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Amendment.

As Charles Glenn points out, «The Dutch example is particularly telling since there is a constitutional guarantee of freedom of the religious or philosophical character of schools... and two - thirds of pupils in the country attend nonpublic schools.