Analysis of Carson v. Makin

Authors

Wilson Huhn

Abstract

Many school districts in the State of Maine lack high schools, so the children in those districts must attend another school selected by their parents.¹ In 1873 the State of Maine enacted a tuition assistance program, called "town tuitioning," that offers a stipend to participating schools to partially defray the cost of educating children from districts that lack a high school.² In 1981 the State of Maine enacted a law that categorically excludes "sectarian schools" from participating in the tuition assistance program.³ The Maine Department of Education defines a "sectarian school" as a school that is both associated with a particular religious faith and that promotes that faith or presents academic material through the lens of that faith.⁴

First Page

50

Recommended Citation

Wilson Huhn, Analysis of Carson v. Makin, 61 Duq. L. Rev. 50 (2023).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol61/iss1/5