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The ACLU of West Virginia has taken the state’s Water Development Authority to court over a grant it issued to a Catholic school in Ohio.
In its complaint, filed Monday in Kanawha Circuit Court, the ACLU says the West Virginia Water Development Authority violated the state constitution when it issued a $5 million grant to The College of St. Joseph The Worker in Steubenville, Ohio.
The ACLU says taxpayers should not have to support the college’s religious mission.
Among other things, the constitution says “no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever.”
The Water Development Authority is a revenue bond bank that finances local water and wastewater infrastructure projects statewide.
It’s unclear how the grant to the Ohio Catholic college serves that purpose. The grant was first reported by the Gazette-Mail newspaper.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of the American Humanist Association. The complaint names the Water Development Authority and its president, Marie Preszioso, as defendants.
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The West Virginia Board of Education got its first look Wednesday at a proposal to update school funding in West Virginia, and voted that that the current funding formula does not provide a thorough and efficient education to public school students.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo cases about whether the West Virginia Board of Education can mandate vaccines to students entering school without allowing for religious exemptions have been combined by the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe suit, filed with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, asks the court to declare the state’s school funding system unconstitutional and order the state to meet its duty to provide a thorough and efficient education to every child in West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwo communities in different parts of the state will get several million dollars in funding for badly needed updates to their wastewater services.
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