A Catholic school and parents are suing Maine over the state's exclusion of faith-based schools from its tuition assistance program for rural families.
he was"extremely disappointed" in it, adding,"They promote a single religion to the exclusion of all others, refuse to admit gay and transgender children, and openly discriminate in hiring teachers and staff."
"It is disturbing that the Supreme Court found that parents also have the right to force the public to pay for an education that is fundamentally at odds with values we hold dear," he continued, vowing to"explore" ways to"ensure that public money is not used to promote discrimination, intolerance, and bigotry" despite the court opinion.
Maine had allowed its tuition assistance program to be extended to religious institutions until 1982, when it decided to exclude them. While the program funded tuition for children to go to out-of-state and out-of-country schools, it barred religious schools until last year's“Maine is willing to pay for kids to go to all-girls boarding schools in Massachusetts and public schools in Quebec, but parents who choose Catholic schools like St.
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