A group of Jewish parents and schools filed a lawsuit against a California law that denies parents and private religious schools funding for special education and children with disabilities. Discrimination against the religious cries out to the sky since non-religious private schools do receive budgets for children with special needs and various disabilities
A group of parents in Sacramento, California are suing the state after they were denied a budget for special education and disabled children. The parents want to send their children to Jewish schools where there are religious or ultra-Orthodox students, but they are prevented from doing so because politicians in California prohibit the use of federal and state special education funding for religious private schools, while allowing these funds for non-religious private schools.
The Children with Disabilities Education Act is a federal law that ensures that all children with disabilities in America can receive a free and adequate public education that meets their needs. This funding helps pay for the cost of staff training, special education programs, technology and other services. The purpose of the funding is to help children with disabilities receive a free and appropriate education, including placing children with disabilities in private schools when public schools cannot meet their needs.
Different states in the US include children with disabilities in both religious and secular private schools, depending on the best fit for each child. But in California, the legislature allows only secular private schools to participate in this benefit program and has completely excluded religious schools from participating. The lawsuit is intended to ensure that parents Religious people with children with disabilities and religious schools would be treated equally under the law, something that nearly 60% of Californians would like to see, according to a recent poll.
“It takes a special kind of audacity to deny Jewish children with disabilities equal access to the benefits of special education,” said Eric Rasbach, vice president and senior advisor at the “Bucket” organization that helps children with special needs and various disabilities, “California politicians can end this illegal discrimination by Easing or aggravating. Either they change the law that harms children with disabilities, or they can fight shamefully in court for the right to discrimination.”