Faith Based Schools Barred from Taxpayer-Funded Program

EXCLUSIVE – Keith and Valori Radonis were eager to send their three children to St. Dominic Academy – a prestigious co-ed Catholic school for students in grades K-12 – hoping to qualify for the state’s Town Tuitioning Fund, a taxpayer-funded program reserved for students in small towns and rural areas with no available public schools to help alleviate education costs.

But the parents found a roadblock to their plans.

Amendments to the state’s human rights law imposing religious neutrality on schools, as well as new nondiscrimination policies on the basis of gender and sexual orientation, have barred faith-based schools from participating in the program, making the funds contingent on their compliance.

The Radonis family and St. Dominic Academy filed a lawsuit against the state last week, arguing the amendments cut students’ access to a faith-based education. (Excerpt from Fox News.)