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ERIC Number: EJ1345136
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 7
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1539-9664
EISSN: EISSN-1539-9672
A Landmark Ruling for Religious Schools: The Future Implications of "Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue"
Dunn, Joshua
Education Next, v21 n1 p48-54 Win 2021
The full reach of the U.S. Supreme court's 2020 ruling in "Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue" has yet to be seen, but it has the potential to reshape the school-choice landscape. The ruling, which prohibited Montana from excluding students at religious schools from a tax-credit scholarship program, will figure prominently in many other cases in the months and years to come. The authors see four kinds of organizations or individuals that might pursue challenges to school funding laws and amendments: (1) Faith-based schools that have been denied the right to participate in choice programs because of their religious affiliations; (2) Religious organizations that want to run a charter school but on a nonsectarian basis; (3) Religious organizations that want to run explicitly religious charter schools; and (4) Individuals who argue that government funding of public schools is an "otherwise available benefit" that should also support vouchers to attend a religious school. The extent of "Espinoza's" influence will depend on what happens when the decision fully confronts the court's jurisprudence on the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
Education Next Institute, Inc. Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman 310, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA 02138; Fax: 617-496–4428; e-mail: Education_Next@hks.harvard.edu; Web site: https://www.educationnext.org/the-journal/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Montana
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