Now, that well has all but dried up. With the financial help of a little-known pilot voucher program begun in Florida two years ago for students with disabilities, the Niedharts moved their daughter to a private school. The alarm was sounded in a resort city near the Gulf of Thailand, where some 1,100 delegates gathered for a meeting of Education International, a worldwide coalition of labor organizations. Contra Costa Times Oakland, California's Military Institute, the brainchild of Mayor Jerry Brown, is open for business. Boston Herald Officials in some Massachusetts towns are taking a look at what they're getting from private schools.
State law exempts nonprofits from paying local property taxes.
But in Deerfield, voters have authorized the town to file a home rule petition to tax the schools' real estate should they not be satisfied with other contributions they are making. The Supreme Court could say by late September whether it will hear a dispute over a groundbreaking Cleveland school voucher program. The case could finally settle the dispute over whether spending taxpayers' money on religious schools is constitutional. School choice opponents have been routinely including state constitutional claims in their challenges to school choice programs, so IJ already has considerable experience in combating such claims. Voice Your Opinions Reply to this spotlight in the discussion forum Interact with the spotlight editor and other readers.