Education Week profiles upcoming Supreme Court cases, including a look at Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v. Winn , which deals with the issue of tax credits going to religious schools. Could it end up having a big impact?
Douglas Laycock, a prominent church-state scholar and a co-author of a friend-of-the-court brief filed on Arizona's side by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other groups, says that if the high court upholds the Arizona tax credit, that will be a decision "of not great importance."
"It's more modest than [the private school vouchers in] Zelman," said Mr. Laycock, a professor of law and religious studies at the University of Virginia. "If it is struck down, that's much bigger news. Then we have a return to the days when there were all sorts of strange and thin distinctions"; in church-state jurisprudence, he said.
Read the whole thing for background. The argument is scheduled to be heard November 3.
