Supreme Court Rules Maine Law Excluding Religious Schools from Tuition Assistance Is Unconstitutional - The Minnesota Sun

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The Court ruled, 6-3, in Carson v. Makin, that the Maine law governing its tuition program's exclusion of religious schools, while accepting other private schools, is a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and is, therefore, unconstitutional.
63% :"Today's decision is a momentous victory for religious freedom and parents' right to educate their children as they see fit," Ferguson said.
50% : In a major decision for religious freedom and school choice, the Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a Maine law that barred taxpayer tuition assistance funds from families choosing religious schools.
49% : The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
46% : "Saying that Maine offers a benefit limited to private secular education is just another way of saying that Maine does not extend tuition assistance payments to parents who choose to educate their children at religious schools," Roberts continued, concluding:Maine's "nonsectarian" requirement for its otherwise generally available tuition assistance payments violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

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