A state department of education has created a fund of a specific amount to be distributed among the public and private elementary schools within the state to provide instructional programs in mathematics. The amount of funds available to a school will be based on the number of students attending the school and the number of schools that elect to receive funds. Concerned that the expenditure of funds will benefit parochial schools at the expense of public schools, parents of public-school children have filed suit against the state secretary of education in federal district court seeking an injunction to block the distribution of these funds to parochial schools as a violation of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as made applicable to the state via the Fourteenth Amendment. How is the court likely to rule in this suit