Vermont has agreed to pay legal fees and tuition costs of multiple families who plan to use the funds to send their children to religious schools after initially prohibiting public funding from going to religious schools.
Vermont has agreed to pay legal fees and tuition costs of multiple families who plan to use the funds to send their children to religious schools after initially prohibiting public funding from going to religious schools.
null / Credit: Ivon19 / Wikipedia (public domain) (CC-BY-SA-4.0)Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 8, 2022 / 21:00 pm (CNA).Vermont will be among the first states to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, according to a local news outlet that reported a pro-abortion proposal in that state passed Tuesday. VTDigger, which covers news in Vermont and is a project of The Vermont Journalism Trust, Ltd., announced that Article 22, also known as Proposal 5, passed in that state through a ballot initiative during the midterm elections."With more than 142,000 votes counted, yes votes for Proposal 5 outnumbered no votes by a margin of 72%-22%, according to a preliminary vote count released by the Secretary of State s Office at 9:10 p.m. Tuesday," the outlet reported. "Roughly 5% left the question blank."Following VTDigger s conclusion, several other organizations considered the proposal passed, including the ACLU.As of 10:15 p.m. EST, the New Yo
The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, sitting vacant and fenced off in downtown Burlington, could be razed and developed if the church gets its way. But those who want to save the building claim historic status.