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by bcadmin | Aug 22, 2022 | Blaine Amendments, Carson v. Makin, News, Supreme Court ruling, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The June 21 Supreme Court ruling in Carson v. Makin declaring that a Maine tuition aid program excluding religious schools was unconstitutional resurrected interest in what are known as Blaine amendments.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 26, 2022 | Blaine Amendments, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Missouri, News, School vouchers, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Carson v. Makin ruling could eventually expand educational options for Catholic families, a former Missouri Catholic Conference official said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 29, 2022 | Blaine Amendments, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Maine, News, School vouchers, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The June 21 Supreme Court ruling in Carson v. Makin declaring that a Maine tuition aid program excluding religious schools was unconstitutional resurrected interest in what are known as Blaine amendments.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 9, 2021 | Blaine Amendments, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Maine, News, Religious Freedom, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
A majority of the Supreme Court justices viewed a Maine school choice program that excludes religious schools as discriminatory Dec. 8.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 16, 2021 | Becket Fund, Blaine Amendments, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, First Amendment, Maine, News, Religious exemptions | 0 |
The Supreme Court are taking up a Maine case against a rule that lets families who live in towns without public schools receive public tuition funds to send their children to another public or private school as long as it’s not a religious school.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Blaine Amendments, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Diocese of Charleston, News, School vouchers, South Carolina | 0 |
Private schools and colleges asked a federal judge Monday to strike down the provision in South Carolina’s constitution that bars public money for private and religious schools, saying the 1895 measure is discriminatory.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 15, 2021 | Associated Press, Blaine Amendments, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, Diocese of Charleston, News, South Carolina | 0 |
A group of private schools is suing South Carolina, saying the racist past of a state constitutional amendment prohibiting spending public money on religious or private schools means it should be overturned.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2020 | Associated Press, Becket, Becket Fund, Blaine Amendments, Catholic Church, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, News, religious liberty, School choice, School vouchers, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court elated religious freedom advocates and alarmed secular groups with its Tuesday ruling on public funding for religious education, a decision whose long-term effect on the separation of church and state remains to be seen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2020 | Blaine Amendments, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Schools, Church in the US, News, Private school tuition, School choice, School vouchers, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
In a 5-4 ruling June 30, the Supreme Court said the exclusion of religious schools in Montana’s state scholarship aid program violated the federal Constitution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2020 | American Enterprise Institute, Blaine Amendments, Catholic education, Church in the US, lead, Lyman Stone, News, Secularization | 0 |
A new study reveals both a decline in American religiosity.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2020 | Analysis, Blaine Amendments, Espinoza v. Montana, Features, News, Supreme Court | 0 |
In oral arguments tomorrow in the case of Espinoza v. Montana, the US Supreme Court will hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the latter-19th century’s notoriously anti-Catholic—nowadays anti-religion—“Blaine Amendment,” of which 38 sta…
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