Sentences with phrase «religious school for their child»

A training institute has been established in Chicago, and some congregations have begun religious schools for their children.

Many other parents forego their right to choose a religious school for their child and instead enroll the child in a public or non-religious private school, where they can access services on - site.

Not exact matches

The 11 children who were killed were studying in a nearby madrassa, or religious school, said Matiullah Zhman, a spokesman for Kandahar police.

NEW PLAN Nothing changes with higher education, but you will also be able to withdraw up to $ 10,000 each year, per child, to pay for private or religious school and receive the same tax benefits.

In fact, we already do that in a number of areas — Pell grants for poor college students, child care to the parent, not a religious institution, and the parent freely chooses a school that is secular, Buddhist, Baptist and so on.

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.

In interviews with CNN, religious leaders from Newtown, the site of last year's school shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed, said that a recent gun control agreement does not do enough to fight gun violence, leading one rabbi to doubt whether Congress was actually working for the American people.

So, for example, on - site remedial educational services could be provided to disadvantaged children enrolled in private schools, but not their counterparts in religious schools (Aguilar v. Felton [1985]-RRB-.

She reminded the House of the immense contributions that people of faith are making to the well - being of the nation — schools, food banks, social support, child care and many others - and concluded that there is a need for greater religious literacy.

In my experience, school children of non-Christian faiths are excused from school for religious holidays.

If you feel as though you need to take your child out of school 2 - 3 days a year for religious purposes, do so.

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However, there are a limited number of school days and the children simply can not be off for every religious holiday that comes along.

But we now have gone to «winter break» and «spring break», because people felt that giving children time off from school for religious holidays was pretty darn close to violating the sacred seperation of church and state.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

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It is important to remember that the parents in Tennessee and in Alabama were not asking that their own religious beliefs be taught in the schools, much less seeking to «control religious impulses and reshape spiritual sensibilities» for the children of other parents.

Under the California provisions, for example, the state supreme court invalidated a program providing fourteen dollars» worth of purely secular books for the use of children enrolled in religious schools.

Yet church schools are in fact a very late development in Christian history; in an earlier era it would have been inconceivable that the church had any responsibility for children's religious training.

And an admittedly hurried examination of several texts intended for use in courses of instruction before confirmation or in «religious studies» in schools for adolescents has made it plain that this whole set of ideas is either entirely absent or is so «muted» (to put it so) that it plays no really significant part in what children or confirmands learn as they are introduced to the Christian faith and its theological implications.

[5] Pius XI made clear in his encyclical on education, «when the faithful demand Catholic schools for their children, they are not raising a question of party politics, but simply performing a religious duty which their conscience rigidly imposes upon them.»

Given that these results tally with religious and secular aims in the United States, we should anticipate that parents concerned about the direction that American culture is taking will regard faith - based schools as providing a positive environment for their children.

We don't allow smoking in elevators, and we shouldn't allow the serving of food to school children to which a parent might object on a variety of grounds — nutritional, religious, a concern about allergens, or for any other reason.

That's just one small part of being a parent — school is important, yes, but there are a lot of other factors that go into how parents will have and raise children, from how many they'll have to how far apart they'll be born or adopted to religious instruction to discipline to who'll care for them to activities and sports.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

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Humanists UK, which leads the national campaign against religious discrimination and segregation in schools, has stated that such a decision would ignore the evidence that the cap has boosted integration in faith schools and instead show that the Government has bowed to the demands of the religious lobby instead of sticking up for the interests of children.

In 2008, the campaign group the Accord Coalition was founded to ensure state funded schools teach about the broad range of beliefs in society; do not discriminate on religious grounds and are made suitable for all children, regardless of their or their parents» religious or non-religious beliefs.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich stopped in ultra-Orthodox Borough Park, Brooklyn to tour a matzoh bakery and meet with students at a school for autistic children — and to expound on his personal religious beliefs.

«This has been a long fight that I and many others have advocated for many years and am happy the day has come that parents do not have to choose between their child marked absent from school or their religious observance,» stated Davids.

Councilmember Greenfield, a former vice president of the Sephardic Community Federation, heads an outside organization that is dedicated to securing government funds for religious schools, and he boasts in his online Council bio that he has been successful in securing $ 600 million in tax credits for parents of school children not in the public schools.

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.

The money would primarily fund scholarships for poor children to attend private and religious schools.

Families are in the best position to provide specific religious education and guidance of and for their children either in the home or through special after school activities or in their own church, synagogue, mosque or temple.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

New York State's highest court has ruled that a school district does not have to provide separate special - education services for handicapped private - school children who refuse on religious grounds to mix with public - school pupils.

With my own children in both public and religious schools, I have seen significantly more emphasis on understanding and being active in government in the religious schools, including yearlong studies in preparation for major trips to Washington, D.C., and the state capital.

A lot of Catholic parents no longer feel strongly that their children should attend parochial schools for purposes of religious formation.

Activists will also focus their energies on tax - relief programs for third parties that provide scholarships for poor children to attend religious and private schools.

On the day before school was to open that year, federal district court judge Solomon Oliver struck down the program, ruling that the use of tax dollars to pay for children to attend religious schools offends the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

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Not only would it terminate the voucher program for 4,000 children in Cleveland; it would open to challenge the Milwaukee program through which 10,000 low - income students receive up to $ 5,553 in tuition relief for private and religious schools.

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.»

Ms Warren said that for children whose parents chose an independent school, academic results were most commonly cited as the motivating factor behind that decision, followed by the school's religious values.

The parent decides where to spend that money for the child's education and may choose from a variety of participating entities, including religious and non-religious schools.

Charters lack some key features of private schools — notably the opportunity to educate one's child in one's religious faith — but they are more reliably accountable for their academic results.

The New York City Board of Education «effectively robs from public - school children» to provide Chapter 1 remedial services to students from religious schools, an advocacy group for public education has charged.

Debate over school choice will move from the policy arena to the courts following the passage of legislation last month that made Ohio and Wisconsin the first states to approve tuition vouchers for children who attend religious schools.