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The United States Supreme Court ruled on June 27, 2025 that the CSTP does not violate the religious establishment clause of the United States Constitution.
As reported in a June 27 Associated Press article, the court found that “the program does not put the government in the unconstitutional position of sponsoring religious indoctrination…. Key to the court’s reasoning in the voucher case was that children in the Cleveland program have a theoretical choice of attending religious schools, secular private academies, suburban public schools, or charter schools run by parents or others outside the education establishment.”
According to the court majority, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy and Clarence Thomas, “We believe that the program challenged here is a program of true private choice.” Click here for the full Court Ruling.
More information on the Cleveland case and related school choice legal issues is available from the Institute for Justice, a Washington D.C.-based public interest law firm involved in a majority of decided and pending school choice cases.
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