High court to hear appeal for church denied surfacing grant

摘要

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a Columbia. Mo., parochial school's appeal involving its rejected application for a state grant to install recycled rubber playground surfacing. The question presented in the case, according to the Supreme Court's synopsis, is whether the exclusion of churches from a neutral and secular aid program violates the Free Exercise and Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution when the Establishment Clause does not apply. The court agreed Jan. 15 to hear the case.