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The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Elena Paredes/Facebook) Article continues below advertisement ↴ Concerned parents are bringing their case of religious discrimination before the U.S. Supreme Court after a lower court ruled students at religious schools will not qualify for educational benefits. The ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says students in Maine will only qualify for educational benefits when attending a school that does not provide religious instruction, CBN News reports. Parents in small town Maine have been paid to send their children to a school of th...

PORTLAND, Maine — Three families demanding that the state pay tuition for religious schools are taking their appeal to a U.S. Supreme Court that looks much different than when the lawsuit was filed more than two years ago.The conservative shift of the...

Maine ban on funding religious tuition goes to U.S. Supreme Court So far, courts have sided with the state, which contends using taxpayer dollars to fund religious education violates the separation of church and state. By DAVID SHARPAssociated Press Share A man holds a cross as he prays prior to rulings on religious school issues outside the Supreme Court in Washington on July 8, 2020. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky Three families demanding that the state pay tuition for religious schools are taking their appeal to a U.S. Supreme Court that looks much different than when the lawsuit was filed ...

J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press file Lawyers representing three Maine families challenging a state law prohibiting public tuition funds from going to religious schools are now appealing their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Virginia-based Libertarian Institute for Justice submitted a petition to the court on Thursday. At issue is Maine’s town tuitioning program, which allows state tuition payments for students in towns without their own high schools to be used at nearby public or private schools, but not at religious schools. The case was rejected by a federal appeals court ...