Questions arise about discrimination in religious schools
Modified: 5/9/2021 10:00:10 PM
MONTPELIER A spate of national and state-level court rulings have been clear: States, including Vermont, cannot discriminate against religious entities when doling out public subsidies, including taxpayer-funded school vouchers.
But can those schools then discriminate against their own students?
That question rose to the surface recently when former Vermont education secretary Rebecca Holcombe tweeted out a screenshot taken from the handbook of Grace Christian School, a religious institution located in Bennington. The small K-12 school’s “Statement of Faith” compares homosexuality to incest and bestiality, and states that “rejection of one’s biological sex is a rejection of the image of God within that person.”
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The waiting list to get into charter schools is considerable in most cities. Many on the list are non-white. They want an alternative to the public schools. Why? For the same reason that rich people do: the public schools are unsatisfactory, and in many cases they are positively dreadful. But unlike the rich, most minority parents cannot afford to send their children to private schools.
Enrollment at Catholic schools during the pandemic is down overall, though there are many important exceptions. Many low-income parents, and those who are out of work, cannot pay the tuition. A report by the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) found that Disadvantaged communities have been particularly affected by recent closures [of Catholic schools] with more than half of the closed schools located in low-inco
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Windsor Central school district makes interim superintendent permanent
Modified: 2/19/2021 10:08:38 PM
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WOODSTOCK The Windsor Central Unified Union School District voted this week to negotiate employment terms with Interim Superintendent Sherry Sousa.
The board voted Monday to hire Sousa for the permanent job after the other finalist for the job, former Vermont Education Secretary Rebecca Holcombe, withdrew her name late last week. Holcombe said she received another job offer that she felt she couldn’t turn down.
“(Windsor Central Supervisory Union) ran an excellent search process,” Holcombe said in an email Friday. “I was truly impressed by the hard work the communities have done to forge an inspired and unifying vision for their young people, as well as a strategic plan for getting there. They are working hard to think ahead and ensure a bright, shared future for their communities. We all can learn from this effort. It is also clear how well they have