Colorado’s constitutional ban on funding religious education is being challenged in federal court.
Alongside co-counsel at First Liberty Institute, Miller Farmer Carlson Law, and Dechert LLP, First & Fourteenth has filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of Education ReEnvisioned and Riverstone Academy.
At issue is Colorado’s “Blaine Amendment,” which prohibits public entities from contracting with religious schools. After Education ReEnvisioned sought funding approval for Riverstone Academy, a Christian school, the Colorado Department of Education informed it that state law requires religious schools to be excluded.
As our partner Michael Francisco explains:
“Colorado law treats religious schools differently just because they’re religious. This is yet another example of Colorado trying to unconstitutionally punish and exclude people of faith just because it doesn’t like their beliefs.”
We will continue to share developments as this case proceeds. Its outcome will have significant implications for school choice and religious liberty in Colorado.
Read the full complaint here: Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief