SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that taxpayer money can be used to buy non-religious textbooks for students in all types of private schools.
The decision reversed an earlier call that said doing so was unconstitutional. But the New Mexico high court was told to reconsider that earlier decision by the U.S. Supreme Court after the justices ruled on a somewhat similar religious case in Missouri.
The case began in 2012 when two parents sued to stop the state from using taxpayer money for books and computer programs at private schools.
That state’s public education department had stopped funding textbooks for students in private schools following the state Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling.
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