DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Three Catholic families have filed a lawsuit in DeKalb County challenging the eligibility requirements of the Georgia Promise Scholarship Program, claiming the rules violate their religious freedoms and are “coercive.”
The lawsuit targets the program’s requirement that students must attend a public school for at least two semesters before they can apply for the state scholarship.
“For these families, they have a religious obligation to give a religious education to their child,” said Nathan Loyd, the lead attorney representing the three families. “The problem is that one of the eligibility requirements here is that the parent must send their child to a public school first.”…