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KOCHI: The life and work of Dakshayani Velayudhan, the first Malayali woman from a scheduled caste community to earn a ...
In March, he testified in opposition to Texas’ new ESA law, which passed in April with help from President Donald Trump. The president called GOP members of the state House, urging them to vote yes.
Part of the massive domestic policy bill currently moving through Congress known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” includes an unprecedented $5 billion national school voucher program. Republicans ...
An event on the steps of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, meant to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a landmark decision in favor of school choice, drew a single protester.
IN 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of men in masks fished out centuries-old artefact from the northernmost beachside of Fort Kochi at a depth of less than one metre. These intricately carved ...
School choice is back in the spotlight with the Supreme Court’s recent decision not to rule on the case of a religious charter school in Oklahoma, which left in place that state’s highest court ruling ...
With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that a public religious charter school would violate the separation of church and state.
The new leader of the Catholic Church, who has taken the name of Leo XIV, had visited Kochi twice in the mid-2000s. The newly elected pope visited Kochi for the first time in 2004 when he was the ...
"Texas has created the largest day-one school choice program in the nation, putting the state on a pathway to becoming the best in America for educating our kids." Pastor Jack Graham of Prestonwood ...
Now comes Oklahoma, where the Catholic Church created St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School is seeking state recognition to become an explicitly religious charter school.
School choice advocates rally as the Supreme Court hears St. Isidore, a case that could allow public funds for religious charter schools—raising church and state concerns.
Other 19th century school organizations took notice, including religious ones. From 1825 until 1841, New York officials received similar requests for funding from Baptist, Jewish, Lutheran ...