March 17, 2005

AmeriCorps Did Not Violate Constitution, Court Says

By Grant Williams

In a victory for the Bush administration and its efforts to help religious groups, a federal appeals court has ruled that the AmeriCorps national-service program did not promote religion and violate the Constitution by using federal money to support its participants as teachers in inner-city Catholic schools.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed a lower court's ruling last year that the arrangement was unconstitutional because it violated the

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