Texas exempts religious private schools from local health orders
by Spencer Neale, Breaking News Reporter | | July 18, 2020 01:51 PMPrivate religious schools in Texas are free to decide whether they want to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Attorney General Ken Paxton said in an open letter Friday that local governments in the state do not possess the authority to keep religious private schools from following state health guidelines if they wish to reopen their doors.
“Under the Governor’s orders, local governments are prohibited from closing religious institutions or dictating mitigation strategies to those institutions,†Paxton wrote. “Local governments are similarly prohibited from issuing blanket orders closing religious private schools. Because a local order closing a religious private school or institution is inconsistent with the Governor’s order, any local order is invalid to the extent it purports to do so."
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