The Supreme Court has decided it will hear a case against Maine’s ban on using financial aid through a state program to attend religious schools, the court announced Friday.
Families have challenged a Maine Department of Education policy that says public tuition dollars for families who don’t live near a public school can’t be used to send children to religious schools, but can be used to send them to public or private schools.
Plaintiffs in the case, Carson v. Makin, filed a petition earlier this year with the Supreme Court, which was granted on Friday. It is one of 10 cases that the high court added to its docket on Friday while closing out its nine-month term.
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D) maintained in a statement reported by The Associated Press that religious schools are excluded from the public tuition dollars “because the education they provide is not equivalent to” public schools.
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