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Blake
01-26-2025, 10:04 PM
WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid led by two Catholic dioceses to establish in Oklahoma the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in a case testing the separation of church and state.
A lower court blocked the establishment of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, ruling that its funding arrangement violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on government endorsement of religion. The Supreme Court took up an appeal of that ruling by a state school board and the organizers of the proposed school....."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/supreme-court-weigh-bid-create-first-us-religious-charter-school-2025-01-24/

Blake
01-26-2025, 10:06 PM
If this gets approved then the flood gates open for vouchers as well

Blake
02-05-2025, 04:51 PM
" BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Texas Senate is set to vote on an education savings account bill this Wednesday after Governor Greg Abbott fast-tracked the issue by declaring it an emergency item during his State of the State address on Sunday..."

https://www.kbtx.com/2025/02/05/school-voucher-bill-gets-fast-tracked-texas-senate/

Lol "emergency"

ChumpDumper
02-05-2025, 05:41 PM
:lol everything is an emergency