On January 22, 2020, the Supreme Court in Washington DC, on the height of the Trump impeachment trail had another case burring that could effect the future of private schools. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., had another case on his mind during the trail, Should the government be allowed to fund private religious schools. "I wonder," the chief justice said, "if there's a difference between general funding of the public schools and the decision to provide aid to private schools, except not religious schools." Justice Stephen G. Breyer, a liberal on the court ask a similar one. The main argument was if private schools received state aid, than private religious schools should too. This case revolves around Montana, and their 2015 decision "to provide parental and student choice in education." The state received the money threw donations from people that was written off as tax credit, and it provided scholarships for students to go to private schools. 94% of the scholarships went to religious schools. This can be seen as a problem because, it violated the state's constitution for giving money and aid to any "church, school, academy, seminary, college, university, or other literary or science institution, controlled in whole or in part by any church, sect or denomination." Because of this, the Montana Supreme court ruled in shutting down the whole program weather it be a religious institution or not. They did this to seem fair in their decision and to not violate the state's constitution. This meant that no scholarship money would be given out to the any students for private schools. This whole issue is just interesting in the fact that should states or the federal government be allowed to give scholarship and aid to private religious schools and non religious schools. This would help so many students and their families to send them to be educated. This issue still seems like it has a ways to go but I am for this being a policy.
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