The court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday said schools that provide religious instruction cannot be excluded from a Maine
The program, he concluded,"operates to identify and exclude otherwise eligible schools on the basis of their religious exercise." The ruling from the court, now with a 6-3 conservative majority, is the latest in a growing line of decisions favoring religious parties. In a 2020 case involving a Montana scholarship program, a divided court that states cannot exclude schools from receiving public benefits solely based on their religious status or identity.
Maine has nearly 180,000 K-12 students, of which a small fraction, 4,565, are secondary school students who attended private schools through either a contract for schooling or the tuition program.
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