Showing posts with label religious school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religious school. Show all posts

Friday, September 14, 2018

Maryland Taxpayers Are Paying Millions to Religious Schools Without Oversight | David G. McAfee

Millions of taxpayer dollars in Maryland go to “church-exempt” schools (private schools run by churches) that get little to no government oversight, and a local news investigation revealed a multitude of problems at one school in particular. ....

Monday, March 26, 2018

Sweden's Social Democrats propose ban on religious independent schools - The Local

"Religious influence has no home in Swedish schools. The Social Democrats want school to provide all children with a good education regardless of their background, gender or religion," the party explained in a press release....
https://www.thelocal.se/20180313/swedens-social-democrats-propose-ban-on-religious-independent-schools

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Betsy DeVos’s Schedule Shows Focus on Religious and Nontraditional Schools - NYTimes.com

For years, Betsy DeVos traveled the country — and opened her checkbook — as she worked as a conservative advocate to promote the expansion of voucher programs that allow parents to use taxpayer funds to send their children to private and religious schools. A detailed look at the first six months of Ms. DeVos’s tenure as the secretary of education — based on a 326-page calendar tracking her daily meetings — demonstrates that she continues to focus on those programs as well as on charter schools....
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/betsy-devos-work-schedule-education.html?_r=0









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