A Legal Victory for Religious Schools | City Journal
A state need not subsidize private education. But once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious. With those words, Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by four other members of the Supreme Court, gutted the nineteenth-century Blaine Amendments a legacy of anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant sentiment from the nineteenth century still found in 37 state constitutions. Those amendments barred the use of public money for religious schools. With this week s ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Court leaves it up to individual states to decide if they support private and religious schools directly with taxpayer dollars, grants, and school vouchers, or indirectly, through tuition-tax credits.
The photo looks just like my old school!