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Vermont board tells 3 districts, including Hartland, to pay for tuition at religious schools Modified: 4/22/2021 10:00:17 PM MONTPELIER The State Board of Education has ordered three Vermont school districts to reimburse families who live in “choice” towns for the tuition they paid out of pocket this year for their children to attend religious schools. The board’s decision, released on Wednesday, was not entirely unexpected, given recent court rulings at the state and national levels. But it still does not settle the fundamental question at the heart of several lawsuits still pending in Vermont and elsewhere: To what extent, if any, can states exclude religious schools from receiving taxpayer funds? ....
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Board: districts must pay for 3 to attend religious schools April 22, 2021 GMT MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) Citing a 2020 U.S. Supreme Court decision that says states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education, the Vermont State Board of Education has decided that the school districts of three students must pay the tuition for them to attend religious schools as part of a state tuition benefit that they were denied. The three families had appealed their school boards’ denial to the state board, which issued its decision on Wednesday. “Based on the limited record before the Board, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s controlling decision in Espinoza, the tuition denials” in the appeals “must be reversed,” the board wrote. ....
Judge finds Windsor principal was fired in June, advancing her lawsuit Tiffany Riley Modified: 3/16/2021 9:02:50 AM RUTLAND A federal judge on Monday ruled that the Mount Ascutney School District Board terminated Windsor School Principal Tiffany Riley in June 2020, boosting her underlying lawsuit that she was unjustly fired for Facebook posts she made that were seen as critical of the Black Lives Matter movement. The school district has argued that Riley had been put on leave in June, and continued to receive pay and benefits as part of her $113,000 salary until the School Board held a termination hearing, which is required under state law, and then officially fired her in October. ....
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