School vouchers give taxes to private schools, which include religious schools. In many states’ constitution it is stated that no taxes can go to religious schools. One of these states is Colorado, “the state's Supreme Court ruled against the district's voucher program, which was passed in 2011, saying it violated a plank of the State Constitution that explicitly prevents public money from going to schools ‘controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatsoever.’” What this makes clear is that school vouchers violate the Colorado constitution. This is because their constitution plainly states that taxes cannot go to school run by a religious group, and because of this this system has been overturned. The school voucher system has gone through the Colorado supreme court and has been ruled unconstitutional. This idea cannot be put into place across the country if it is already unconstitutional in one state. The voucher system violates the Colorado constitution and because of this cannot be carried out into rest of the states with the same or similar …show more content…
For the first time, a state high court accepted the central argument of the private-school-choice movement that providing a tuition voucher to parents who then choose a religious school for their children does not violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against government establishment of religion.” Many have viewed this as a way to appeal the other supreme court decisions. The belief is that is one state with a law against taxes going to religious schools can have school vouchers then why not the others. However, at this time multiple states have overturned this system, meaning many have agreed that this system is unconstitutional. The idea that if Wisconsin rules the voucher system to not be in violation of the Wisconsin constitution, then all other states cannot say it is unconstitutional is not well thought out. This is because states have different versions of the law that taxes cannot go to religious