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• Rochester, NY, Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eagle View Technologies, Inc, the leading aerial imagery and insights company, today announces changes to its executive leadership team.
• “We are experiencing an unprecedented moment of growth,” shared EagleView CEO Piers Dormeyer.
• “And these organizational changes are reflective of our desire to have the talent necessary to expand the company’s remit and capacity.
• In this role, Comer will focus on expanding the EagleView brand to ensure continued growth of the company.

• Since its founding in September 2013, Mach 1 has quickly become one of Texas' top public relations and strategic communications agencies.
• "On day one, our goal was to provide the best in crisis and public affairs communications and that goal remains our North Star.
• A pillar of Mach 1's success is the unrivaled advocacy campaigns they design and execute during Texas Legislative Sessions.
• For more information about The Mach 1 Group, please visit www.themach1group.com .

• Named Philadelphia Nut Butter Company , the consumer brand will sell its peanut (salted or unsalted), almond , and cashew butters direct-to-consumer via its new website at www.PhiladelphiaNutButter.com.
• "The Philadelphia Nut Butter manufacturing process is simple and seamless: we dry roast the nuts, ground them, and package them immediately to maintain freshness.
• At first introduction, Philadelphia Nut Butter products will be sold exclusively via its website, and inside the store at Philadelphia Nut Butter headquarters on Pattison Avenue in Philadelphia.
• Each 26 oz jar of Philadelphia Peanut Butter is available for $13.00 + shipping; Cashew Butter is $22 + shipping; and Almond Butter is $23.50 + shipping.

• U.S. courts have long wrestled with the extent to which government funding can be used at private religious schools.
• School-choice advocates have won key cases at the Supreme Court in recent years, opening up more ways for public dollars to support faith-based education.
• In late 2022, the then-attorney general of Oklahoma argued that a state law barring faith-based charter schools was actually unconstitutional.

Recent trend

• Advocates of expanding public funding to faith-based schools were encouraged by three recent Supreme Court cases that upheld greater aid to their students.
• The first of these decisions, 2017’s Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia v. Comer, dealt with a private Christian preschool that was denied public grants to update its playground.
• School administrators sued, arguing that to deny generally available funding constituted religious discrimination, in violation of the First Amendment’s protections for freedom of religion.
• Three years later, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue further opened up government aid to private religious school pupils, relying on the Trinity Lutheran decision.

Rethinking church and state?

• Yet, it is important to keep in mind what likely prompted these changes in the first place: new faces on the Supreme Court.
• Nevertheless, the parameters of the “child benefit test” often used to justify greater public funding has been evolving for years.
• A majority of justices upheld the program’s constitutionality because, again, students were the primary beneficiaries, not the religious schools themselves.

Eyes on Oklahoma

• The Oklahoma proposal, however, had been the first to consider establishing a charter school with religious instruction and standards.
• The idea of faith-based charters has attracted proponents for more than 20 years, but they have had little success.
• If the proponents of the Catholic proposal in Oklahoma reapply to the school board and eventually succeed, it would likely encourage similar approaches elsewhere.