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Ruling revives lawsuit to allow state funding for special education to go to religious schools

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A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel revived a lawsuit filed by Orthodox Jewish families that sued California education officials over the state's policy of refusing to fund special education programs at religious schools.

For decades in California , those dollars have only been permitted to go to schools that are nonsectarian.

The panel's decision sends the case back for reconsideration to a federal court that had previously rejected it.