Maddaus interviewed by Press Herald about U.S. Supreme Court decision on º£½ÇÉçÇø’s town tuition program
Associate professor emeritus of education John Maddaus talked to the about this week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down º£½ÇÉçÇø’s ban on public, taxpayer funding for tuition at religious schools. º£½ÇÉçÇø has long allowed students in towns with no public high school to put taxpayer money toward the cost of an outside school, public or private. But since 1981, the law has barred students from using those funds at religious schools. The court’s opinion applies to less than a few thousand high school students in º£½ÇÉçÇø, but it could shift the national debate about public funding for religious education. “It’s not really about º£½ÇÉçÇø,” said Maddaus, who researched º£½ÇÉçÇø’s town tuition program in the 1990s. “Yes, it’s a º£½ÇÉçÇø program. But it’s really about this larger national game.”