- “For more than two decades, Vermont unlawfully excluded religious schools and their students from public benefits, essentially eliminating school choice for many parents in the state,” Schmitt said.
- In June, the Supreme Court reached a similar conclusion about Maine’s tuition assistance program, ruling that Maine cannot exclude students at religious schools.
- Schmitt said that the Supreme Court’s decision showed that “the government cannot eliminate families’ benefits just because they choose to use those benefits at religious schools that provide religious instruction.”
