Supreme Court rules Maine's exclusion of religious schools from state tuition program is unconstitutional

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Washington -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday said schools that provide religious instruction cannot be excluded from a Maine tuition assistance program available to students in rural areas of the state, finding the state's requirement that only nonsectarian schools qualify for the program violates the First Amendment.
50% : "The state pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious.
50% : 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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