Tag: U.S. Supreme Court and school choice
Supreme Court opens path to religious charter schools
Editor’s note: This article appears in the Winter 2023 issue of Education Next. In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Carson v. Makin that Maine violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment by excluding religious schools from a private-school-choice program—colloquially known as “town tuitioning”—for students in school districts... READ MOREVermont to school districts: No more religious discrimination in town tuitioning school choice programs
Vermont residents who live in towns too small...
READ MOREThe Supreme Court should not perpetuate discrimination on the basis of religion
This letter to the editor from Kirby Thomas West, a...
READ MORE‘Equal treatment, not special treatment’: Conservative Supreme Court justices appear ready to strike down religious barriers to public school choice funding
Editor’s note: This commentary appeared Wednesday on The 74. For...
READ MOREFamily at center of Maine school choice case hopes for U.S. Supreme Court victory
David and Amy Carson both graduated from Bangor Christian Schools,...
READ MOREComes the moment to decide
Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,...
READ MOREToo soon to gauge sweep of Indiana school voucher ruling
In 2002, in the Zelman case, the U.S. Supreme Court...
READ MOREA little legal history to go with those concerns about vouchers & creationism
The Orlando Sentinel recently published a blog entry about a...
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