Supreme Court Takes Up Catholic Preschools' Challenge to Colorado Program Rules

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge involving Catholic preschools in Colorado that seek to take part in a state program, The New York Times reported. The newspaper said the court "considers whether" the schools, which decline to enroll families with gay and transgender parents, can participate. The report was written by Ann E. Marimow.

CBS News reported that the justices are weighing a case involving Catholic preschools' efforts to join Colorado's universal preschool program. Its headline said the Supreme Court "seems likely to favor" the schools. The summary of that report does not describe the arguments or the reasoning behind that assessment.

The two accounts differ in emphasis. The Times described the court as set to consider the question, while CBS News described the justices as weighing the case and pointed to a likely result in its headline. Neither source reports a ruling, and the sources available do not state when the court will rule.

The accounts also differ in how they name the program. CBS News identified it as Colorado's universal preschool program, while The Times referred only to a state program. Both reports concern whether the schools can take part in that program, and neither summary gives further detail on the schools' enrollment policies beyond the practice described above.

The summaries available for this report are brief, and this account is limited to the points they contain. They do not address the legal questions in the case in depth, and they do not describe how individual justices have approached the matter.

Sources: The New York Times: Supreme Court to Hear Catholic Schools’ Challenge to Colorado Aid Rules; CBS News: Supreme Court seems likely to favor Catholic schools in pre-K fight.