Opinion ID: 2058058
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Heading: constitutional and statutory provisions at issue

Text: [¶ 2] The constitutional requirements at issue in this case are stated in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [1] The First Amendment states, in pertinent part: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof .... [¶ 3] The statute at issue is 20-A M.R.S. § 2951(2). Title 20-A M.R.S. § 2951 (2005) states in part: A private school may be approved for the receipt of public funds for tuition purposes only if it: ... (2) ... [i]s a nonsectarian school in accordance with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.