This year the Supreme Court went further than ever before in circumscribing the ability of state legislatures to aid church-related schools. Hardest hit were the auxiliary services and instructional materials programs that many parochial educators had heretofore assumed would be constitutionally acceptable. (Author)

The Supreme Court's decision in "Mueller v. Allen" raises important constitutional questions about state financial support for the promotion of religion. The case also raises the issue of whether this nation can provide adequate financial support for public schools while simultaneously diverting tax resources to the nonpublic schools.…

Through a series of shifting majorities, the Court upheld the textbook loan, standardized testing and scoring, diagnostic services, and therapeutic services provisions of the Ohio statute and struck down the instructional materials and field trip sections of the law. (Author)