The Louisville Courier-Journal reports on an item in the budget that passed the Kentucky House last week. Representatives from Breathitt County secured $100,000 for equipment and educational materials for Riverside Christian School.
This appropriation – which the Jefferson County Teachers Association President called "a lawsuit waiting to happen" – comes while we wait for the state's Supreme Court to decide a case questioning the legality of public money used for scholarships to the Baptist University of the Cumberlands.
The proposed appropriation for Riverside Christian underscores the importance of the high court’s pending action in the Cumberlands case, said David Tachau, attorney for the plaintiffs.
“Now the legislature is proposing a direct subsidy of $100,000 to a school who proclaims that their ‘mission’ is ‘to lead each student to Christ,’ ” Tachau said, quoting the first line of the school’s mission statement posted on its Web site. “This time there’s no effort to pretend the money would be used for non-religious purposes.”
