Sentences with phrase «to send one's children to religious schools»

Parents who wanted to send their child to a religious school suffered on account of their religious status.

Yet, there are many families who enjoy sending their children to religious schools regardless if the families have the same religious beliefs.

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).

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.»

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.

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-.

Vouchers will enable parents to send their child to religious schools.

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.

That being said, polls indicate that the nation as a whole is at best ambivalent about using tax money to send children to religious schools.

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.

Indirect funding involves the state giving aid to a religious organization through a third party, such as a family that uses state funding to send its children to a religious school.

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.»

As Indiana's governor, Pence has driven an anti-teacher, anti-public education political and legislative agenda that has included dramatically expanding charter schools and diverting scarce public funds to voucher programs that, in turn, have allowed private individuals to use taxpayer money to send their children to religious schools.