United States | Church and chalk

The Supreme Court seems ready to poke a hole in the church-state wall

Government funding for religious schools gets a high-court hearing

Another brick out of the wall
|New York

PARENTS SEEKING government money to send their children to religious schools have won a string of victories at America’s Supreme Court. The dollars began flowing in 2002, when the justices let states provide parents with vouchers for religious schooling. In 2017 the court said states may not exclude church-based preschools from grants for playground resurfacing. And in 2020, in Espinoza v Montana Department of Revenue, parents persuaded the high court that their state must provide tuition assistance for students to attend religious schools if they also offer these funds for secular private schools.

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