The U.S. Supreme Court handed school choice advocates a major victory on Tuesday. By a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, the court opened the door further for those seeking taxpayer funding for religious schools.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed school choice advocates a major victory on Tuesday.
The court's ruling came in a case from Maine, a state so rural that half of its school districts have no public high school. The state deals with that problem by contracting with nearby high schools in other districts to take those students. The state pays the average cost of tuition, a bit over $11,000.
Now, in the Maine case, the court majority has gone further, declaring that when a state provides benefits to a non-religious private school, it must provide the same benefits to a religious school. As for Maine, it faces something of a dilemma. The state legislature will not be back at work until September, too late to adopt an alternative system for educating its students from more rural areas. The 4,800 students who currently attend the non-religious independent academies could be allocated to public schools elsewhere. But that would leave the academies, many of which have long histories in their districts, bereft of students.
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