The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Maine cannot exclude religious schools from a state funding program, weakening the separation between church and state.
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The ruling involved a rule in the state of Maine that bared public money from being used to send children to religious schools in places without public schools.
The 6-3 outcome could fuel a renewed push for school choice programs in some of the 18 states that have so far not directed taxpayer money to private, religious education.
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