Los Angeles Times Article RatingSupreme Court may allow church-run, publicly funded charter schools across the nation
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : "The hallmark of public education is that taxpayers are paying for it," said Justice Sonia Sotomayor.57% : Gen. Gentner Drummond said that public funding for the Catholic school would violate state and federal laws on charter schools as well as the state's Constitution and the U.S. Constitution.
56% : Since the early 1990s, charter schools have taken hold in 47 states as a popular public-funded option for parents and their children.
53% : But the court's conservatives said Wednesday they believe it is unfair and unconstitutional to turn down church-run schools as tax-funded charters.
45% : The court's conservatives, all of whom were raised as Catholics, trace the history of opposition to "sectarian" schools to 19th century anti-Catholic "bigotry." Denying public funding based on religion "is odious to our Constitution and cannot stand," Roberts wrote in 2017.
43% : They did so believing the Constitution's ban on an "establishment of religion" and the principle of church-state separation prohibited using tax money to fund churches or teach religion.
42% : The court's three liberals were skeptical of converting public charter schools into a program that includes privately run religious schools.
41% : If so, the decision could transform K-12 education and public schooling nationwide.
41% : In a series of opinions, he has staked out the view that denying public funding to religious groups violates the 1st Amendment and its protection for the "free exercise" of religion.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
