According to a report from Fox News, the Supreme Court has ruled that a Maine tuition program violates the First Amendment by excluding religious schools from eligibility. Advertisement“The program provides tuition assistance for students without a local public school to attend private institutions – as long as the funding is not used for religious or ‘sectarian’ teaching,” Fox reports. Roberts noted that this addition was made after Maine’s attorney general determined that funding private religious schools would violate the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause. The Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that a program where private citizens made the decision as to where the money was going would not violate the clause. “[A] neutral benefit program in which public funds flow to religious organizations through the independent choices of private benefit recipients does not offend the Establishment Clause,” Roberts wrote.

Source: Fox News June 21, 2022 19:27 UTC