{"id":8013,"date":"2025-06-10T10:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8013"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:38:24","slug":"three-liberty-university-students-sue-virginia-for-excluding-them-from-state-scholarship-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8013","title":{"rendered":"Three Liberty University students sue Virginia for excluding them from state scholarship program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Virginia students are suing the commonwealth of Virginia in federal court after being denied access to state-run tuition assistance programs because of their choice to pursue religious studies.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by Alliance Defending Freedom, the students are suing the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the Virginia Department of Military Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The students, all of whom attend or plan to attend Liberty University in Lynchburg, say they have been denied otherwise available tuition assistance grants because they plan to study religious-oriented programs, including &ldquo;Music and Worship.&rdquo; However, they could get the grants for similar religious programs if they attended public colleges, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bZkhzXbP08o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"Recent Supreme Court rulings have been favorable to religious institutions receiving vouchers.\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/three-liberty-university-students-sue-virginia-for-excluding-them-from-scholarship-program\/ reports &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Virginia students are suing the commonwealth of Virginia in federal court after being denied access to state-run tuition assistance pr&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=8013\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Liberty University students sue Virginia for excluding them from state scholarship program<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[616],"class_list":["post-8013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-three-liberty-university-students-sue-virginia-for-excluding-them-from-state-scholarship-program","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-25f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8014,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8013\/revisions\/8014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}