Justices to Revisit Funding for Religious Schools Next Term

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider whether states can exclude religious schools from a student-aid program because it will be used to teach religious education.

The case is a follow up to the court’s 2020 ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, finding that states can’t exclude religious schools from student-aid programs simply because of the school’s religious status.

The Boston-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit nevertheless said Maine could exclude the school here because it wasn’t based on its status as a religious school, but because the state funding will be used for ...