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Demovictory9

(32,453 posts)
Sat May 28, 2022, 02:37 AM May 2022

SCOTUS likely to issue setback for LGBT

Supreme Court likely to drop school voucher bombshell


But the court will also soon be handing down a decision in another case that could cause an earthquake for public education.


The case is Carson v. Makin, which was brought to expand voucher policies that provide public money for private and religious education. The case involves a program in Maine that allows the state to pay for tuition at private schools in areas where there is no public school — so long as that private institution is “nonsectarian in accordance with the First Amendment.” Two families, along with a libertarian institute, brought a suit asking that courts require the state to include sectarian religious schools in the program.

Similar requests have been rejected by lower courts. But, as my Post colleague Robert Barnes reported, during hearings last December in Carson v. Makin, the conservative justices on the Supreme Court — who represent the majority, “seemed ready … to extend a line of recent rulings favoring religious interests” and “were critical” of the Maine program that disallowed public funds from going to religious instruction.
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Privatization of public education gaining ground, report says
In Carson v. Makin, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court is likely to require Maine officials to use public funding to subsidize religious teaching and proselytizing at schools that legally discriminate against people who don’t support their religious beliefs. A ruling in favor of the families would “amount to a license to outsource discrimination,” according to Kevin Welner, director of the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s School of Education. He is also an attorney and a professor of education.

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“The Supreme Court is just a few small steps away from transforming every charter school law in the U.S. into a private-school voucher policy,” he writes. “Further, the nation may be facing a future of religious organizations proselytizing through charter schools that have been freed from obeying anti-discrimination laws — with LGBTQ+ community members being the most likely victims.”

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Every religion will run charter schools just not Christians . .. Lovie777 May 2022 #1

Lovie777

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1. Every religion will run charter schools just not Christians . ..
Sat May 28, 2022, 07:48 AM
May 2022

LGBTQ own and run charter schools as well, POC too. Of course, tons of people will prefer these schools because of the well balanced and informative school curriculums which deals with reality and will produce well rounded, smart and ready for the world attitude. Overall, it will be pro-democracy that will prevail while the closed bigoted minded will fail, and these will be the evil ones just like today.

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