Religious schools not entitled to voucher aid, says court.A federal appeals court ruled in October that Marne education officials may exclude private religious schools from a tuition program. A three--judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 28-page decision in Eulitt v. Marne concluding that the state had legitimate "interests in concentrating limited state funds on its goal of providing secular education Secular education is a term that refers to the system of public education in countries with a secular government or separation between religion and state. While it is considered an important part of a democratic and free society, some may oppose secular education on the , avoiding entanglement, and allaying concerns about accountability that undoubtedly would accompany stale stale horseman's term for the act of urination by a horse. oversight
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adj. 1. Of, relating to, supported by, or located in a parish. 2. Of or relating to parochial schools. 3. schools' curricula and policies." The Maine law any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine. At present, the state of Maine sells such beverages in its own stores. See also: Maine provides tuition for students in districts that do not have their own public schools, But the law bars school districts from paying tuition to any private school. Parents in Minot County who chose to send their children to a Catholic school sued the state. Americans United for Separation of Church and Slate filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the 1st Circuit, urging the judges to reject the parents' lawsuit. "Maine's decision not to extend tuition funding to religious schools does not ... require residents to forgo religious convictions in order to receive the benefit offered by the state--a secular education," the 1st Circuit ruled in its Oct. 22 decision. |
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