Vt. District Provides Latest Test In Battle Over Religious Vouchers
A tiny Vermont school district has become the latest battleground in the fight over religious school choice.
The 200-student Chittenden school district, nestled in Vermont's Green Mountains, wants to pay to send 15 students to a nearby Roman Catholic high school. The proposal has led to a legal battle with the state education department, which has threatened to withhold all of the district's general education aid.
Chittenden is one of about 90 Vermont communities that do not have high schools and are not members of so-called union high school districts. Instead, they pay tuition for students to attend public or nonsectarian private high schools in other communities after they finish Chittenden's K-8 schools. The practice, known as "tuitioning," has been a tradition in Vermont for...
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