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Supreme court on first amendment grounds. school choice proponents are going to have an easier road in legislatures around the country as they push for choice legislation to be passed. >> colorado supreme court relied heavily on the blaine amendment in its ruling, at issue whether states can allow parents to use tax credits from a publicly funded voucher program to send their child to a religious school. >> bret: thank you. the illinois state house will vote tomorrow on an attempt to override th...

Faith-based institutions coming to help with medical supplies and shelter. no one puts their hands up and says where you from? why dont we have that same approach when we talk about k-12 education. >> if public money can go to religious institutions playground they asked, why not the cost of enrollments course back in the supreme court ruling theres a footnote from john roberts that says "we do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination." critics of voucher programs s...

>> i do think it lays down a marker. >> advocates are cheering the supreme court decision to allow trinity lutheran church to receive public money to rubberized the surface of its playground. school choice supporters believe the decision undermines a decades-old state law known as the blaine amendment thats often used to prevent families from using public scholarship money to send their children to a religious school. missouri is 1 of 138 states. since 2015, three states have faced legal challen...

D.c. voucher program that are included in this bill. another big priority. the cfr being removed from the bill. that was another big priority for the administration. a lot of big victories here. we are focusing on the things that we needed most to happen. that has taken place. both republicans and the white house are very happy with the way that things are moving at this point. >> jenna: how does the president feel about the final deal coming together? >> the president has been very engaged in t...

>> reporter: but lana can only attend the school because of a controversial voucher program, one thats been at the center of a heated political battle in florida for 16 years. instead of paying taxes to the state, corporations get dollar-for-dollar tax credits by donating money to organizations like step up for students which gave many of the 98,000 scholarships to lower income students, enabling them to go to private schools statewide. >> i dont think low income children should have less opport...

Recipient of the florida tax credit voucher program. about 350 students in this school. 300 of those children are recipients of vouchers. most of those children are from low-income families. the tuition at the school, about $60,000. that would be a heavy lift for some of these families, so much so it would be impossible if they were not receiving a voucher program. so, thats the reason he came here. he talked with a group of fourth graders who applauded the president. one little girl even told h...

What hes saying from insightful to funny and his unlikely relationship with michelle obama. we have a lot of news unfolding both here and overseas. our team of reporters is in place with all the very latest. lets start down in orlando, florida, where the president just wrapped up his first school visit since taking office. my colleague, rehema ellis joins us now. youve been covering education in america for a long time for nbc. tell us more about why the president was there, why he chose that sc...

Anti-trump signs and gestures is what they were waving. lot of people here were saying public school is not for sale, and they are very much against the idea of using public funds for private schools. but there were also some pple here, one woman with a sign that said "women for trump." but this florida state is a state thats for the most part very friendly to the idea of vouchers, and thats why the president is down this road here, i think you can see the american flag, that is where the cathol...

300 of them are recipients of this voucher program. its a $6,000 tuition here. were it not for this voucher program, these children could not afford to go here because theyre from low-income families. in the listening room, denisha merriweter was in the room, a recipient of the voucher program she said it changed her life. in that room she said there were families from across the state and they were crying because they talked about how much it changed their lives. it was a place where they were ...

Focus on high standards, we need to focus on better commitment to parental engagement and we need to commit to proper resourcing. many of the public schools in baltimore have no, if you will, extracurricular activities and very high student teacher ratios in many inner schools. so im hope to looking at innovation but what i dont want is rank experimentation, particularly if there is no proof, something like vouchers, that its really worked. >> michael? >> i can give you an example of a voucher p...