by Bob Walsh
Two days ago SCOTUS put out a significant ruling on private school funding.
The
Montana Supreme Court had earlier struck down a law from 2015. Their
ruling said the law was in violation of the Montana Constitution in that
it allowed tax money, via credits, to go to religious schools.
In
a 5-4 vote the conservatives on the court with John Roberts on their
side decided that IF the state allowed the tax credits for private
schools at all it could not prohibit them for religious based private
schools.
Judge
Sotomayor described the ruling as "perverse." Clearly the state can
not exercise the large amount of indoctrination and control that is
normally present in government schools when students are in private
schools.
Approximately
12 states have similar laws on the books. This ruling does not force
states to grant money to private schools. It does, however, tell them
that if they do kick down to private schools they can not refuse to
kick down to private schools merely because they are religious based.
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