Lawmakers plan to form a task force to consider whether the state government should contribute money for school construction and renovations. The problem is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
The Vermont Agency of Education and several school districts will pay tuition costs and legal fees to five families to settle lawsuits challenging the state’s practice of not paying for students to attend religious schools if their towns do not have a.
The settlement follows a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said Maine schools cannot exclude religious schools from a program that offers tuition aid for private education.