Today's Supreme Court decision [[7-2!) to throw out a Missouri constitutional plank banning the use of tax dollars for a religious institution serving a non-religious community need might well throw out all such "Blaine Amendments" nationwide*. If so, that would open up the floodgates to allowing state funds to follow kids to any school, including religious ones. That is unbridled good news for everyone not currently profiting from the public school monopoly. Mostly, it'll be great for kids, whose parents can have many new doors opened to them. Poor, urban kids will benefit the most, and I couldn't be happier.

*I haven't yet read- but I will- the decision. Unless it is more narrowly drawn [[and 2 summaries I read did not indicate that it was), governments can now fund things like daycare centers, schools & clinics run by religious groups just like such enterprises run by non-religious organizations.