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US Supreme Court to hear Maine religious school tuition case
By Patrick Whittle
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court decided on Friday that it will hear a case brought by families from Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.
At the heart of the case is a Maine Department of Education rule that allows families who live in towns that don t have public schools to receive public tuition dollars to send their children to the public or private school of their choosing. That program excludes religious schools.
Families who want to send their children to Christian schools in Bangor and Waterville sued to try to change that, but have been denied in lower federal courts. They appealed to the high court, and the Supreme Court s order list said on Friday that it s taking up the case.
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This week, the Office of the Maine Attorney General released a very sad report. Its annual report of drug overdose fatalities. That report reveals that 2020 was the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses. The report showed that 504 deaths were caused by drugs in 2020, a 33% increase over the 380 the year before in 2019. 336 of those deaths were due to non-pharmaceutical fentanyl, a 30% increase in fentanyl deaths over 2019.
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