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- Parents, Diocese of Burlington sue Vermont for religious discrimination in education
- Public, nonreligious private, and home-schooled high-school students can attend college classes, but not students from private religious schools
- Gov’t officials agree state’s 'adequate safeguards' requirement unconstitutional, will no longer exclude religious schools, reimburse wrongly denied plaintiff families’ tuition, pay attorneys’ fees
- Ruling ends more than 21 years of discrimination
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Paul Schmitt regarding an emergency injunction issued Friday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that prohibits Vermont officials from discriminating against students who attend religious high schools in the state’s Town Tuition Program. The program provides students who live in towns without public high schools tuition funds to use at a private school of their choice, but it has barred students and their families from using their benefit at religious private schools: “People of faith deserve their ...
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Jake Warner regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit’s decision Friday to grant a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit A.H. v. French (formerly A.M. v. French, and not to be confused by a separate case with the same name) that stops Vermont officials from excluding religious-school students from the state’s Dual Enrollment Program, which had allowed public, private secular, and home-school students to enroll at not cost to them in two college courses before graduating high school but denies that ...
- State officials provide tuition vouchers for students who select public or private secular schools but not private religious schools
- The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s friend-of-the-court brief filed Wednesday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in A.M. v. French opposing Vermont’s discrimination against students based on the religious status of the high schools they attend: “As the United States argues in its brief filed Wednesday, no state can discriminate against students based on which kind of school they attend. It makes no sense for Vermont to say it will pay ...
- Appeals court cites US Supreme Court’s decision in Montana case
- Public, nonreligious private, and home-schooled high-school students can attend college classes, but not students from private religious schools