A Grand Rapids Catholic school is trying to invalidate a nearly 50-year-old ban against using state aid for private education, arguing it is “anti-Catholic” and violates the U.S. Constitution. Immaculate Heart of Mary filed a lawsuit last month against the state because the school is forced by the government to comply with various public health measures but isn’t given state aid to help it meet the mandates. It has asked the state Court of Claims to declare a voter-approved measure unconstitutional because it “forces a religious school to choose between remaining a religious school or become entitled to a public benefit.” The move comes after several public school and parent groups led by the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a lawsuit last year in state court to block $2.5 million that lawmakers put in the state budget in 2017 to fund mandates on non-public schools — requirements such as immunization compliance, criminal background … [Read more...] about Suit: State aid ban for private schools ‘anti-Catholic’
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Kerala HC Stresses Need For Mechanism To Regulate Fees in Private Schools [ Read Order]
Share Tweet Plus One Pin It Email Print By: Live Law August 9, 2018 6:42 am Change Font Size “Education is a charitable activity; both the provider and the beneficiary have to see that in such a manner. There cannot be any element of profit except for the further development of the school infrastructure”, Justice Mustaque observed in the order While dealing with writ petitions concerning fee hike in a private school, the High Court of Kerala lamented that there was no statutory mechanism in place to address grievances regarding fee hike in private schools. The case arose out of fee hike in Sree Sree Ravi Shankar Vidya Mandir, a private CBSE affiliated school in Ernakulam. Some parents protested the fee hike, resorting to strike and “dharna”. The protest assumed acrimonious proportions, resulting in expulsion of the children of protesting parents. Certificates and marklists of certain students were withheld by the School. They approached … [Read more...] about Kerala HC Stresses Need For Mechanism To Regulate Fees in Private Schools [ Read Order]
Senate leader: If NC private school voucher money is going unspent, loosen the rules
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State Senate OKs new program to use public money to pay for private-school vouchers
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Judge ‘inexplicably’ threatened private school over custody disagreement, appeals court says
A New York judge should not have reopened settled issues in a custody case after the parents were unable to agree on physical custody of their child for a 2½-hour window on Fridays, a New York appeals court has found.Nor should the judge have “inexplicably” threatened to send the child to a private school, or have rejected the parents’ agreement on which school district the child should attend, according to the April 20 decision (PDF) by the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.The judge is Catherine Cholakis of Rensselaer County, the Albany Times Union reports. She declined the newspaper’s request for comment.When the parents couldn’t resolve the 2½-hour custody issue at a January 2015 hearing, Cholakis declared that, if there is a trial, “everything is opened up,” according to the appeals court opinion. “If I’m going to sit here and we’re gonna hear testimony,” Cholakis said, “I want to hear it … [Read more...] about Judge ‘inexplicably’ threatened private school over custody disagreement, appeals court says