In the recent Supreme Court Case, Carson vs. Makin, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the State of Maine could not exclude private religious schools in the state’s tuition assistance program. The court held that doing so violates the free exercise of religion clause.
This is important because the distinction between actively religious and labeled religious private schools was deemed obsolete, an argument that was used in a similar Montana case.
In Maine, this means parents can choose the best educational option for their children, regardless of the school’s religious status. However, there is not much of a new impact for the Wisconsin choice programs.
Across the country, this means that, again, the exclusion of religious schools in choice programs was found discriminatory, a win for parental options in education around the nation.
Read more about the decision here.
