Supreme Court to Consider Challenge to Michigan Ban on Religious School Funding on Sept. 30

The Supreme Court announced on July 31 that it will formally consider on Sept. 30 whether to hear a challenge to Michigan’s ban on government funding of religious schools. The case comes as the school choice movement, which aims to give parents an opportunity to keep their children out of under-performing government-run schools by providing alternative education funding strategies, has enjoyed a string of victories at the nation’s highest court in recent years. The Supreme Court voted 6–3 in 2022 to strike down a Maine law that excluded families from a student aid program if they chose to send their children to religious schools. In Carson v. Makin, the court held that the program violated the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment....