The Christota colleges challenge the state after a decade -long law amending them from participating in the state’s dual enrollment program because they are asking students to sign faith data.
Since 1985, the registration program after the secondary school in Minnesota has allowed thousands of high school students, who want to attend both private and public colleges, to register for a program and simultaneously receive high schools and colleges for free. In 2023, the state amended the program’s law to exclude schools that require students to sign a faith statement on the request, a decision that would be released by the Crown College, Northwestern University, Saint -Paul, according to legal representation. Now, colleges are fighting the procedure, saying that it is distinguished on the basis of religious exercises.
Fox News Digital spoke to Diana Thompson of the Beckett Religious Freedom Fund, which represents schools in the case against the state.
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“The Supreme Court said during the past decade that, especially in the context of education, the government does not have to provide funding for private schools,” Tomson told Fox News Digital. “It runs public schools. It is not necessary to provide funding for private schools, but as soon as they do so, religious schools cannot be excluded on the basis of their religious status, and their religious practice. Therefore, there are cases throughout the country when governments try to circumvent this, what they said The Supreme Court, and the exclusion of religious schools from education programs.
The court documents claim that the officials have allocated the practices of the two kidneys, and they call the statements of faith “creeping” and “admit that the purpose of the amendment is to force the crown and the northwest to abandon their statements of faith.”
“One of the things I heard from legislators … in the process of discovery. … it was .. ‘These other schools do not require the statement of faith. Why is the crown and the north to the north only what they do? Why can they not adopt their religious beliefs?”
“From the suggestion through traffic, the prosecutor’s amendment,” claims the case. “The employees admitted that the proposal was driven by objections to any admission criteria that require students to exercise actively” [their] Christian faith. (For example 21 in 1.) MDE also wanted to eliminate any messages that might communicate with a potential student who did not welcome him to take a PSEO course … due to [the school’s] Global biblical outlook. (Reynolds.tr.1 132: 8-133: 19.)
Thompson said that the law is not related to “the separation of the church and the state, it is related to choice.”
She said: “It is about giving students a choice for the place they want to go to school. Students have the option to go to the University of Minnesota, to any public or private school in Minnesota. “Some students want to choose schools that create a society that allows them to implement their faith. This is what this program allows. It does not prove a religion for the government to make the choice.”
If the item is approved, the lawyer says that the families who sent all their children to the crown, and will not now have the same opportunities for their young children who want to obtain dual registration credits.
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“Tomson said: “I think it is important for governments to understand that they cannot exclude religious schools and religious entities from participating in government programs just to exercise religious sport. The first amendment. In order for the government to interfere in this blatant violation of the constitution,” Tomson said.
Fox News Digital has contacted the Ministry of Education at Minnesota and the Commissioner’s Office. They did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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2025-01-26 11:00:00
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