Supreme Court to Consider Bid to Allow Religious Charter Schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : The state board that authorizes and oversees charter schools is also appealing.
54% : The accepted a major new church-state showdown, agreeing to consider whether states with public charter schools are constitutionally required to approve and fund religious institutions as part of the program.
52% : Drummond, a Republican, sought to distinguish the earlier Supreme Court decisions, saying they "concerned state subsidization of tuition at existing private religious schools, not state establishment of new public religious schools.
48% : Two years later, the court Maine can't exclude faith-based schools from a program that pays for private instruction in areas without public schools.

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