After high court ruling, is it tremors or earthquakes for public education?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Mr. Butcher says public education and school choice programs will continue to coexist.
55% : Or to eventually require state funding of religious education.
54% : The decision "will hopefully open back up the opportunity for parents to choose the best school for their kids under the tuition program," says Amy Carson, who, along with her husband David, joined the lawsuit when their daughter couldn't use state funding to attend their private school of choice, Bangor Christian Schools.
52% : "This [case] already is a rallying cry for folks interested in defending public education and the value of public schools in American life," says Michael Graziano, an expert on religion and education at the University of Northern Iowa.
52% : States could consider a strategy of making private schools ensure they aren't discriminating in order to gain public funds, says Noelle Ellerson Ng, associate executive director of advocacy and governance at the School Superintendents Association, a member of the National Coalition for Public Education.
51% : "This [case] already is a rallying cry for folks interested in defending public education and the value of public schools in American life.
49% : "The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools - so long as the schools are not religious.
48% : The ruling leads some scholars to question whether the reasoning - based heavily on First Amendment free exercise clause rights rather than establishment clause interests - could extend to permit religious entities to run public charter schools.
48% : In both rulings, the court made clear that states do not have to subsidize private education, "but once a State decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious," as Chief Justice Roberts wrote in Espinoza, and quoted in Tuesday's opinion.
47% : Public schools still enroll about 50 million children, while about 600,000 kids are enrolled in school choice programs, he says.
46% : The National Coalition for Public Education, in a statement responding to Carson v. Makin, argued that the U.S. "must stop creating new private school voucher programs and end the ones that exist.
45% : Last year, Maine legislators added wording to the state's Human Rights Act that prevents employers from discriminating on the basis of gender identity.
41% : The state offers those families funds to attend public or private schools of their choice.
38% :Public education is navigating enrollment declines, shaky parental trust, and sizable learning losses.

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