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Supreme Court hints religious schools can get tuition aid
Headline from The Columbian
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge from parents in Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools. The parents argue that their exclusion from the state program violates their religious rights under the Constitution.
The Supreme Court looked likely on Wednesday to strike down a Maine law that excludes religious schools from a voucher program, strengthening parental rights to use taxpayer dollars at faith-based schools.
Two sets of parents are suing Maine over its policy of making tuition money available in areas that don’t have public high schools but not for schools that promote sectarian beliefs.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that religious schools can't be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education.
Maine struggled Wednesday to defend its school funding system before the U.S. Supreme Court, with GOP-appointed justices casting a skeptical eye on the program, which pays for students to attend some private schools as long as their classrooms aren’t too religious.
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court will return to the issue of religious liberty Wednesday and consider a Maine school tuition assistance program that parents say violates their religious rights under the First Amendment.
Lawyers debated whether or not Maine’s tuition assistance program discriminates against private schools where religion is prominent in their curriculum in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday.
Conservative justices indicate not offering funds to religious schools could discriminate, in case supporting tuition aid for private schools, closely followed by Jewish groups
In oral arguments that took nearly two hours, several of the justices found fault with the state’s decision process in determining just how religious a school was to decide if it could participate or not.
The Supreme Court’s more conservative members on Wednesday seemed receptive to a religious rights challenge to Maine's policy that makes K-12 schools with religious instruction ineligible for a public tuition aid program.
The case, concerning a tuition program in Maine, seemed likely to extend a winning streak at the court for parents seeking public funds for religious education.
At issue in the case is whether the state, which pays for some students to attend non-sectarian private schools, should also pay tuition for students to attend religious schools.
The Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could expand state aid to religious schools. On one side is the school choice movement, and on the other is Maine, defending its public education.
Such a ruling means taxpayers will have to pay for religious indoctrination that's not only contrary to their own values, but also denies their own equality.
Two families turned to Maine's tuition-assistance program to enroll their kids in faith-based schools. But the state funds only go to "nonsectarian" schools.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease religious organizations’ access to taxpayer...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule that religious schools can’t be excluded from a Maine program that offers tuition aid for private education, a decision that could ease
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