Funds allow tailored options for disabled kids

by Hayley Ringle – Oct. 2, 2011
The Arizona Republic

A lawsuit filed last week is challenging the nation’s first publicly funded education savings-account program, and families who use the scholarship are concerned their children will have to find new schools.… Read the rest

High School Coaches in Trouble for Bowing Their Heads During Student-Led Prayer in Tennessee | Video | TheBlaze.com.… Read the rest

Posted at Speak Up.

Kevin Theriot
ADF Senior Counsel – Church Project

Most would agree that a church should be able to open a school to ensure that its children get an education that conforms with its religious teachings.  It follows that a church should be able to employ only those teachers who actually agree with its religious principles and apply them to their lives. … Read the rest

Senate Holds Hearing on Repeal of DOMA
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D – CA) bill S.598 , the Respect for Marriage Act. This deceptively titled proposal actually seeks to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.… Read the rest

by Lindsay Field
The Marietta Daily Journal

ATLANTA – More than 7,000 Georgia students, including some in Cobb County, receive scholarships to attend private school under a state program. Still, though, some education groups are working for more clarity and transparency in the Georgia Tax Credit Scholarship Program law.… Read the rest

By Rachel Devamithran, Liberty Counsel Intern and former AACS Legislative employee

Perhaps America’s Founding Fathers had a special celebration this last Independence Day as Liberty Counsel upheld the “truths to be self-evident,” through their settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to amend Florida’s Santa Rosa County School District’s Consent Decree last week.… Read the rest