California forces parents to choose between kids' needs and faith. Families shouldn't have to.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Just last June, in Carson v. Makin, the Supreme Court made clear that excluding religion from otherwise available government programs violated the First Amendment.
57% : Eric Rassbach, vice president and senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, is a visiting professor and director of the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Religious Liberty Clinic at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law.
52% : For private schools interested in providing special needs children with the adequate education that public schools cannot in some instances provide, California certifies them as "nonpublic nonsectarian schools."
39% : What we do: Here's what 'Abbott Elementary' and Quinta Brunson get wrong about charter schools This has thrust religious parents on the horns of an unconstitutional dilemma: either send your child to a nonreligious, but certified, private school or send them to a religious school that may be able to do an even better job meeting the needs of your child, but pay for that education and those disability services out of pocket.

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