Reply To: Religious Schools Funding — State Blaine Amendments Overturned by Supreme Court

There’s a strong argument for pubic funding of private schools in order to offer opportunities to poor families, most notably blacks and Hispanics, to have their children educated in a school of their choice where the public schools perform very poorly, as is often the case in inner cities, and private schools can offer these poor minority children a much better education that can only be achieved with public funding.

Some states have already taken this approach. Other states, including New York, already fund charter schools which itself is a quasi-private school. There’s a legal argument to be made that if the state is funding charter schools it may be obligated to offer equal funding to other private schools, including religious schools (for their secular education), now that the Blaine Amendments have been overturned.