9th Cir. Affirms State Homeschool Ruling

A group of Christian parents’ can’t use public money to purchase faith-based educational materials for California-funded home schooling under a new federal appeals court ruling, Isaiah Poritz reports.

The California State Board of Education’s home-schooling programs are “sufficiently public” for the state to require secular curricula, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday. It isn’t discriminatory against families who want to prioritize a religious worldview, the panel said, declining to revive the suit.

The ruling affirms a federal district court’s order to toss the suit, which was initially filed by the families on First Amendment grounds ...