All posts tagged "ACLU"

(Thomas Mitchell) – With the school year already under way and the Nevada treasurer’s office working apace to...

(Steven Miller, NPRI) – Inadvertently, the ACLU’s recent Las Vegas Review-Journal op-ed was actually illuminating. Illuminating, because it reveals how much the organization’s case against Nevada’s Education Savings Accounts has to rely upon historical ignorance and weasel words. Take, for example, the ACLU’s recurrent use of, and indeed dependence upon, the word “sectarian.”...

(Thomas Mitchell) – This past week a second lawsuit was filed in state court challenging the constitutionality of...

(Thomas Mitchell) – Whatever the eventual outcome of the ACLU’s lawsuit trying to block the implementation of a...

(Sharon Rossie, NPRI) – Now that I’ve been back at NRPI for some time and had the opportunity to speak with and meet many of you and hear your hopes and concerns for Nevada, I’d like to share my vision for NPRI and show you what I believe we can accomplish together....

(Thomas Mitchell) – Many of the news stories about the ACLU suing to block implementation of Nevada’s education savings accounts (ESAs), approved by this past Legislature as Senate Bill 302, mention that such accounts were declared unconstitutional in Colorado recently. Like Nevada, Colorado’s state constitution includes a Blaine Amendment prohibiting the use of tax...

High court has repeatedly supported parental school choice (Steven Miller, NPRI) – Because some families may choose religiously affiliated schools, says the American Civil Liberties Union, no Nevada families should be allowed to benefit from the state’s new Education Savings Accounts program. Publicly, the ACLU attributes its anti-ESA hostility to a desire to...

(Thomas Mitchell) – Many of the news stories about the ACLU suing to block implementation of Nevada’s education savings...

(Leslie Hiner, The Freidman Foundation for Educational Choice) – Public school parents in Nevada are actively seeking ways...