New Hampshire State House, Concord, New Hampshire, USA. (Wangkung Gia/Shutterstock via CNA) A New Hampshire family has filed suit against the state after a town tuition program refused to pay for their grandson’s Catholic school education. The suit claims that the terms of the program violate religious discrimination laws and go against a recent Supreme Court ruling. The lawsuit, Dennis Griffin and Catherine Griffin v. New Hampshire Department of Education , was filed in the Merrimack County, New Hampshire, Superior Court on September 3. Dennis and Cathy Griffin are raising their grandson, Clayton in the town of Croydon, New Hampshire. Clayton, an ingoing seventh-grade student, attends a Catholic school in the nearby town of Sunapee. He would be eligible to have his private school tuition paid for by the town of Croydon, except for a New Hampshire law which prohibits town tuitioning programs from paying for “sectarian” schools, which the family argue is illegal under the Supreme Court’s recent decision Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue , which struck down a similar exclusion on religious schools. Croydon, a small town of fewer than 1,000 people, does not have its own public middle school or high school. Instead, the town […]
