Maine law gives school-age children the right to free public education. But because many rural districts lack a public high school, a workaround was devised that allows students to attend nearby qualifying private schools with public assistance.
The ruling says that the state cannot discriminate against schools that offer religious instruction. It does not say that the government should fund the religious instruction itself.
Under Maine law, however, schools that offer religious instruction had been ineligible. This exclusion prompted a challenge by Maine parents, who argued that barring families’ preferred schools from the tuition aid program based on religion violates constitutional religious rights under the First Amendment.
The ruling is a victory for First Amendment rights. The title of the OP is grossly misleading.
And will anyone be surprised if Maine just scraps tuition assistance rather than face the horror someone might use the funds to attend a religious school?
The one that quotes an online pamphlet that was designed for high schoolers and wasn’t even part of the curriculum, and offered no example of the text books desantis pulled? And that showed the text book replacement publisher was an associate of Ronny?