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A judge sided with Alabama Governor Kay Ivey and blocked a policy that prevented school voucher recipients from playing on sports teams this fall. Montgomery Circuit Judge J.R. Gaines issued a temporary restraining order barring the Alabama High School Athletic Association from enforcing a policy that says the voucher recipients are ineligible to play sports during their first year at a new school.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey asked a court to overturn a decision by a high school athletics association that blocks students on the state's new school voucher program from participating in athletics their first year in a new school.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A program to aid Alabama families with students who are limited to distance learning this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic…