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...wake of the recent economic downturn, Scott said this act will support AmeriCorps??€™ focus on five pressing issues—educational achievement, health care access, clean energy, support of veterans, and economic opportunities...
With the number of applications to AmeriCorps??€™ state and national programs increasing roughly 8 percent from 2007 to 2008, this expansionary act comes at a time when more and more graduates are seeking to partake in national service...
Last Tuesday, a federal appeals court overturned a district court’s decision that would have significantly restricted the presence of teachers from AmeriCorps??€”a government funded service organization—in religious schools. As it stands, tax dollars will continue to be used to fund volunteer teachers at parochial schools. We strongly believe that this is a misallocation of government resources. The first educational priority of the government ought to be improving the current public school system rather than contributing to non-public programs. As a result, AmeriCorps should be forced to direct its resources solely...
...American Jewish Congress (AJC) initially brought suit against AmeriCorps in August 2004. In that case, a federal judge ruled that AmeriCorps workers may not teach religion or attend religious services during the school day. This ruling came in light of AmeriCorps??€™ policy requiring workers to fulfill 1,700 nonreligious working hours annually. The decision did, however, allow volunteers to work in parochial schools with a court-approved monitoring system. The appeals court reversed this ruling Tuesday, claiming the government is in no way promoting religion and thus AmeriCorps can continue as is. Legally, we disagree with the appeals...
...hours every year. This ethic translates into commitments past graduation as well, with serious competition for positions in service programs like Teach for America, which has been summarily kicked to the wayside by the Bush administration. Another service program sought out by students leaving Cambridge after four years is AmeriCorps??€”yet its size has been halved by congressional Republicans, despite Bush’s promise in his 2002 State of the Union address to increase the number of volunteers by half...