States can't single out religious school for exclusion, Supreme Court says.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Still, Michigan school choice advocates have filed their own federal lawsuit arguing that the barring aid to private schools is unconstitutional.
65% : By state law, religious private schools are ineligible to receive funding from the voucher program.
63% : "Maine has promised all children within the State the right to receive a free public education," Breyer wrote.
57% : The court's liberal justices also raised concerns about discrimination in private schools.
53% : Presently, charter schools across the country must be secular in their operation and instruction.
53% : This decision doesn't change that, but some legal scholars say in future cases, the same logic could be applied to charter schools.
52% : "Charter schools are the next frontier," Preston Green, an education law professor at the University of Connecticut, previously told Chalkbeat.
51% : And it could mark the beginning of a new series of lawsuits, including about whether charter schools can be religious and whether states can exclude private schools of all kinds from government aid.
51% : Meanwhile, there may also be an opening for religious charter schools, a possibility noted in Breyer's dissent.
50% : But the decision won't turn on a money spigot for religious private schools.
49% : Maine will have to allow those schools into its small voucher program, but the ruling does not require states to offer funding to religious schools if they don't already fund private schools.
47% : Critically, the decision does not require states to offer public funds to private schools.
47% : The state's constitution bars aid to private schools, religious and non-religious alike, and that appears to be permissible under today's decision.
41% : "The State pays tuition for certain students at private schools -- so long as the schools are not religious," wrote Roberts.

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