AP News Article: Taxpayers are helping classical Christian schools

The AP’s reporting focuses on a familiar area of controversy: the relationship between public funding and the separation of church and state.

The prevailing assumption that public education is religiously neutral deserves consideration. Public schools have long advanced a distinctly secular worldview — one that carries its own religious and philosophical commitments. In our view, the systematic displacement of the West’s Christian intellectual and cultural inheritance from public education is well documented.

We do not agree with the premise that classical Christian education represents a novel threat to the separation of church and state. Rather, we understand our work as part of a larger effort to recover and preserve an educational heritage that has been progressively displaced from American life. We believe this option should be available to all families who choose it.

ACCS remains committed to supporting schools that raise children in the paideia of the Lord and prepare them to live faithfully as citizens of Christ’s Kingdom. Please join us in praying regularly for our member schools, faculty and staff, students, and families.