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Tag Archives: School Choice

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Christian school sues Maine for trying to sidestep SCOTUS decision on religious discrimination

In response to Carson v. Makin, Maine lawmakers passed legislation that limited the ability for religious schools to gain an exemption from certain nondiscrimination rules while participating in the school choice tuitioning program, prompting a lawsuit on behalf of Bangor Christian School on Tuesday.

13 hours ago March 29, 2023 in U.S..
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Private school tuition House vote postponed until Wednesday, sources say

Sources at the Vermont State House say the vote on H.483, restricting public school tuition to private schools, has been delayed until at least next Wednesday. It is uncertain why voting on this bill, pushed strongly by a coalition of public school education groups, has been postponed after being placed on the House agenda this week.

5 days ago March 25, 2023 in TNR News.
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House committee advances bill that would strip interview process from independent schools

On Friday the House Committee on Education passed a bill by a 7-4-1 vote that could make it more challenging for independent schools to receive public support.

1 week ago March 22, 2023 in TNR News.
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Roper: Yes, public schools should not lock 5-year-olds in closets

Houser cited data reporting that at least 587 kids are restrained or secluded each year in our public schools, and these incidents are likely underreported. Disproportionately, the victims of these practices are children with disabilities and children of color.

2 weeks ago March 16, 2023 in Commentary.
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Carol Frenier: Dems and Progs seek to end town tuitioning in Vermont

Under S.66, Democrats and Progressives would destroy the much-admired Vermont town-tuition system in order to prevent a small minority of parents and students from choosing a religious school under the tuition system.

March 1, 2023 in Commentary.
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Roper: Vermont’s public schools are a hot mess

The results are undeniable that the system of educating our children in Vermont is not working — neither for the kids nor the teachers and staff. This is why expanding this broken system by a year to include full day preschool for 4-year-olds should be absolutely unthinkable.

February 28, 2023 in Commentary.
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Federal judge rules Vermont’s school choice funds can be used for religious schools

Vermont must reimburse parents denied state tuition benefits based on their decision to send their children to a religious school, per a settlement approved by a federal judge Thursday.

February 17, 2023 in TNR News.
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McClaughry: Exterminating parental choice in Vermont

Vermont’s long history of parental choice in education will come to a crashing end in 2028 if a bill designed and backed by the “Educational Equity Alliance” makes it through the Legislature.

February 13, 2023 in Commentary.
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Roper: Partisan legislators are going after the wrong schools

A majority in the Vermont Legislature cling to the myth that putting all students together in the same building and giving them all the same educational environment somehow constitutes equity. Nothing is further from the truth. One-size-fits-all in reality only fits a few.

February 13, 2023 in Commentary.
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Supreme Court work-around on religious school tuition introduced in Senate

The Vermont Senate has introduced its long-promised work-around of a U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring towns with no high schools to provide tuition to approved, independent religious schools. 

February 10, 2023 in TNR News.
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Opinion: Our children deserve the best opportunities. Let’s start with school choice

Two of the most critical civil rights issues in modern-day America are parental rights and educational freedom. Our children deserve the best opportunities we can give them, and these opportunities start in schools.

January 27, 2023 in Commentary.
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Gov. Scott endorses School Choice Week — rally Friday at the Statehouse

On Friday there will be a rally for school choice — at the Vermont State House and at the Capitol Plaza across the street — of hundreds of friends of parental choice in education, at a time when a majority of the Legislature seems hell-bent on stamping out as much parental choice as possible.

January 25, 2023 in Events.

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