Religion in Schools
Riverstone’s operator asked county officials for a meeting to 'discuss next steps and to avoid unnecessary conflict.'
A Q&A with the Chalkbeat reporter who has chronicled the nation’s first ‘public Christian school’
If school officials don’t acknowledge the closure order by Monday evening, Pueblo County officials said they will seek an emergency injunction from the courts.
Anne Ochs had two more years in her school board term. She submitted her resignation letter Wednesday.
The request for a Supreme Court hearing comes about six weeks after a federal appeals court ruled against the Catholic preschools.
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
“We have also been working since July to get the zoning corrected and are optimistic that will happen soon,” said the school’s executive director.
The school’s Christian affiliation was omitted or downplayed in documents submitted to the state, a BOCES, and a Pueblo area school district.
A recent Supreme Court ruling that supported parents’ religious right to opt their child out of LGBTQ-inclusive lessons could aid parents worried about a new curriculum that draws heavily on texts like the Book of Genesis and the Sermon on the Mount.
The Supreme Court tied 4-4 in a case over whether an explicitly religious charter school could open in Oklahoma. The tie means a lower court ruling will stand, blocking religious charters.
Backers of a proposed religious charter school argue that charter schools are more private than public. The Supreme Court case could upend the charter sector, with implications for funding, autonomy and more.
The ruling could have long-lasting impacts on what some schools teach and how far they go to accommodate religious objections to curriculum.
The idea has divided the charter movement. Now the U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the case.
Experts say the Colorado case over universal preschool — or one like it — could wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court.
St. Isidore, a virtual charter school, would teach Catholic doctrine and require attendance at mass. School leaders say they are considering their next legal steps.
The state Supreme Court heard arguments for and against St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would be the nation's first state-funded charter school to teach students a specific religious faith.
One bill would allow public schools could hire chaplains to serve as counselors, while another would require schools to release students for religious instruction at their parents' request.
The reversal by state officials is the latest of several flip-flops regarding religious teaching in Colorado’s new preschool program.
During a recent lesson at a Grand Junction preschool that receives state funding, children were taught what sin is, and how God feels about sinners.
Board members acknowledged the larger issue would likely be settled by the Supreme Court, with implications for the separation of church and state.