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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A divided federal appeals court on Friday rejected a challenge to a Connecticut law that ended the state's decades-old religious exemptions from immunization requirements for ...
Zucht v. King, 260 U.S. 174 (1922), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously held that public schools could constitutionally exclude unvaccinated students from attending, even if there was not an ongoing outbreak. [2]
The United States has a long history of school vaccination requirements. The first school vaccination requirement was enacted in the 1850s in Massachusetts to prevent the spread of smallpox. [20] The school vaccination requirement was put in place after the compulsory school attendance law caused a rapid increase in the number of children in ...
Only 15 colleges ‒ all private institutions ‒ still require COVID-19 vaccination shots, according to "No College Mandates," an advocacy group that opposes COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
A religious exemption is a legal privilege that exempts members of a certain religion from a law, regulation, or requirement. Religious exemptions are often justified as a protection of religious freedom, and proponents of religious exemptions argue that complying with a law against one's faith is a greater harm than complying against a law that one otherwise disagrees with due to a fear of ...
Keeping kids safe and schools open is a priority, but there's debate over how effective vaccine mandates for students would be. Keeping kids safe and schools open is a priority, but there's debate ...
The Connecticut State Board of Education is the governing body of the Connecticut State Department of Education, which oversees the public education in the state, distribute funds to the state's 166 school districts, and operates the Connecticut Technical High School System.