Supreme Court to Consider State Aid for Students at Religious Schools

Supreme Court to Consider State Aid for Students at Religious Schools
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in Washington on March 28, 2019. Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has accepted a case from Montana in which it will consider whether states are allowed to deny tax credit programs to students who opt for religious private schools.

The decision to take the case gives a shot in the arm to the private-school choice movement, which hasn’t made much progress at the federal level in recent years, even though tax credit scholarships are a high-priority agenda item for U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.