School Vouchers Can Fund Religous Education

[The Straight Story]

School Vouchers Can Fund Religous Education

(CN) - Indiana parents are allowed to use taxpayer-funded vouchers to put their children in private schools, the state Supreme Court ruled.

Teresa Meredith and 10 other plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the Choice Scholarship Program in a lawsuit against Indiana education officials and Gov. Mitch Daniels, later replaced in office and on the docket by Gov. Mike Pence.

Choice Scholarship provides grants that let eligible low-income students afford private schools instead of the public schools they would attend otherwise.

The plaintiffs complained that the program violates the Indiana Constitution "both because it uses taxpayer funds to pay for the teaching of religion to Indiana schoolchildren and because it purports to provide those children's publicly funded education by paying tuition for them to attend private schools rather than the 'general and uniform system of Common Schools' the constitution mandates."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/04/02/56296.htm

[d_r]

1. crap.

This is a really bad ruling.

[raccoon]

2. Could the case go on to the Supreme Court? This ought to be overturned. nt

[SamKnause]

3. Religion

This infuriates me.


SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE should be STRICTLY enforced !!!!!

[former9thward]

4. This issue has already been at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Zelman v. Simmons-Harris ruled that a similar Ohio program was constitutional.