Suit opposes tax credits that fund religious schools
Three civil liberties organizations have filed a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s new school-choice bill which provides scholarships funded by tax credits for underprivileged students to attend private schools.
The three—Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union—contend that the education tax credit program which took effect January 1 will divert funding from public schools.
They say most of the benefit will go to religious schools, because two-thirds of the state’s private-school students attend schools that indoctrinate children in a particular faith.
