Religious schools do not typically receive public funding, but that could be changing. | stock photo
Religious schools do not typically receive public funding, but that could be changing. | stock photo
In the case of Espinosa v. Montana Department of Revenue, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing religious schools to receive public funding.
Religious schools nationwide could receive more funding as a result, but the impact may not be felt in Michigan.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, "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," according to Michigan Capital Confidential.
Michigan's Blaine Amendment from 1970 gives the state the most restrictive anti-aid policy in the nation. The amendment states: "No public monies or property shall be appropriated or paid or any public credit utilized, by the legislature or any other political subdivision or agency of the state directly or indirectly to aid or maintain any private, denominational or other nonpublic, pre-elementary, elementary or secondary school," according to the Institute for Justice.
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