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Ban on State Aid to Religious Schools Struck Down

2022

The U.S. Supreme Court decides, 6-3, in Carson v. Makin that the state of Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a state program that pays private school tuition for students in areas that lack public schools. The majority opinion says that states are not required to support religious education, but that states that subsidize private schools may not discrminate against religious ones.