The fight for school choice has always faced push‐back when it comes to funding religious education. Even though Pell Grants and federal student loans can be used to attend religious universities, people become wary when school‐choice dollars—whether in the form of vouchers, tax credits, or whatever—are given to religious K-12 schools. Over the years, the Supreme Court has weighed in on this issue a few times, and the justices have usually concluded that states can’t discriminate against religion in their school‐choice programs. Last year was the most recent decision, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue , in which the Court ruled that the Blaine Amendment in Montana’s Constitution could not be used to discriminate against religious education. Espinoza was brought by our friends at the Institute for Justice . Now, IJ is back at the Supreme Court with the follow up case, Carson v. Makin , which could be the final case in a long line of decisions dealing with school choice and religious education. Maine administers one of the oldest school choice programs in the nation. Created in 1873, the state’s tuitioning program pays for students living in underserved rural areas to attend schools of their parents’ choice—whether […]
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