Three recent cases in Michigan, Alabama, and New Jersey demonstrate that, despite popular and legislative pressure, courts continue to hold firm against efforts to inject religion into public education. (Author/JM)

This study examined Chief Justice William Rehnquist's position on four recent Supreme Court cases related to parochaid as well as four other Supreme Court rulings dealing with economic or racial discrimination. The presentation of this study's research should present one perspective on how and why the Establishment Clause is being rewritten and…

The purpose of this document is to furnish information concerning reimbursement by the state of New York to private schools for services rendered to the state and to provide an explanation regarding procedures for implementation. Chapter 507 of the Laws of 1974 provides for the apportionment of state funds to qualifying private schools for the…

This document presents a description and an evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program, a component within the ESEA Title I nonpublic school program. This component was designed to serve approximately 12,000 eligible, educationally deprived children in 229 schools in New York City during the 1975-76 school year. The purpose of the…

Negotiated Tuition is a program, appropriate to private schools, in which a school representative discusses in an interview with parents what the school provides, what the per pupil costs are, and what the parents feel they can afford to pay in tuition. It is assumed that parents enroll their children in nonpublic schools because they believe it…

The Governor's Task Force on the Role of Private Higher Education in Missouri was charged with finding the answers to and making recommendations concerning the following questions: (1) What resources do the private colleges and universities of Missouri have that might be utilized by the State? (2) What solutions have other states adopted toward…

Attention is focused here on key U.S. Supreme Court cases involved with government aid to private schools. The separation of church and state is the predominant issue. (DS)

A system of diversity and choice within the public schools might work, not simply to stem the flight from the public schools, but actually to begin to reverse that trend. (Author/IRT)

Discusses church and state relations in education and court decisions regarding these issues. Includes an appendix of major U.S. Supreme Court decisions related to public finance of nonpublic schools. (JOW)

Reviews three recent Supreme Court decisions affecting public aid to private religious schools. The court found that all three cases violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment. (MD)

The author presents a strong case against public funding of private schools while reviewing the inequities brought about by the privatization of social services. (MD)

Discussed the activities of the Catholic Conference of Ohio, a civil organization established to serve the Church, state and people of Ohio. (Author/RK)

An analysis of United States Supreme Court cases related to State-church separation. (JF)

Explains New Jersey law on the question of local school districts purchasing textbooks for loan to private and parochial schools. The objections of the New Jersey Education Association to these practices are noted. (SJL)

The choice that a voucher proposition offers is between weakening the public schools still further by encouraging flight from them and strengthening the public schools by recalling them to their historic purpose of promoting the ideals of the democratic civic community. (Author)