Valley News - Officials: Vermont ruling on religious school tuition raises questions
Officials: Vermont ruling on religious school tuition raises questions Modified: 4/28/2021 9:00:25 PM When the Vermont Supreme Court ruled in 1999 that public funding couldn’t be used for religious worship or education but could be used for secular classes at religious schools, it left school districts in a bind. Local school boards and administrators in districts that pay tuition to schools had no yardstick with which to gauge whether payments to a religious school would be funding religion or education. Districts made decisions on their own, with some paying tuition to religious schools a...