State funding of private schools
This article examines the Supreme Court case Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, which addressed whether religious schools can be excluded from generally available state funding programs based on church-state separation principles. The analysis has direct implications for Protestant Reformed covenant schools and explores the constitutional tensions between protecting religious liberty and maintaining the separation of church and state.
The Supreme Court recently decided a significant case addressing the separation of church and state. This case did not receive a lot of media attention, but is important for a couple of reasons. First, the case gives some indication of the current direction of Supreme Court jurisprudence related to church and state issues. Secondly, the case involved issues of separation of church and state in the context of a private school, and therefore has ramifications for our covenant schools as well as...
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