Sentences with phrase «religious schools filed»

Not exact matches

The comments filed Monday with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services express concerns over the regulations» exemption of houses of worship but not other religious entities such as schools, hospitals and social welfare program providers.

In August, almost 200 parents filed suit to remove five Orthodox members of the school board, claiming that the board materially - assisted private religious schools by providing them with books and programs.

In 2013, the parents of two students at a school in Encinitas, California filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be taught in public scschool in Encinitas, California filed a lawsuit against the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be taught in public scSchool District (EUSD) claiming that yoga is a religious practice that should not be taught in public schools.

An assistant principal in Alabama filed a federal lawsuit last week challenging classroom prayers, Bible distribution, and other religious practices he contends his school district has long condoned in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The longest - running of the cases, filed in federal court in 2000, alleged that Arizona's individual tax - credit program violates the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution by permitting organizations to provide scholarships to students that can be used only at religious schools.

The Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty, in a statement explaining the suit filed late last month, charges that mobile vans, leased facilities, and «segregated classrooms in public schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school Religious Liberty, in a statement explaining the suit filed late last month, charges that mobile vans, leased facilities, and «segregated classrooms in public schools» are unconstitutional means of providing remedial services for religious - school religious - school students.

The Seattle Times published the following article in today's newspaper: Advocacy groups file initiative to put charter schools on November ballot — According to the text, the initiative sets out several guidelines, including a stipulation that any charter schools must be nonprofit and must not be religious.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

Before that happened, the State Board of Education filed a declaratory judgment action in Wake County Superior Court against private schools, saying that religious schools didn't have a first amendment issue.

Good Morning The U.S. Senate's tax reform bill passed over the weekend includes an amendment filed by Sen. Ted Cruz that will expand 529 College Savings Plans to include K - 12 elementary and secondary school tuition for public, private, and religious schools, including K - 12 educational expenses for homeschool students.

To end Washington's discrimination against special needs kids in religious schools — and to vindicate the rights of parents to choose their children's schools from a wide array of options, including public, private and religious schools — the Institute for Justice Washington Chapter filed a federal constitutional lawsuit challenging the special education ban.

The statewide teachers union, the Florida PTA, the Florida School Boards Association and other groups filed the lawsuit in August, arguing the tax credit scholarship program unconstitutionally created a «parallel» system of publicly supported schools and violated a state constitutional provision barring state aid for religious institutions.

A slew of anti-school choice activists, including the teachers union, state school boards association, and the state PTA, filed two separate legal challenges against the state's school choice laws, alleging that they violate the state constitution's historically anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funds from being expended at religious schools, and the state's «uniformity» clause.

And WILL filed an amicus brief in Duncan v. Nevada supporting the universal voucher program providing taxpayer money for private and religious schools, struck down by that state's highest court.

R.C. filed an Application with the Human Rights Tribunal, seeking a declaration that no religious literature ought to be distributed at school.