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Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan  

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  • At issue in Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty (PEARL) v. Regan (1980) was the constitutionality of a statute from New York that authorized the use of public funds to reimburse church-related and secular nonpublic schools for performing various state-mandated testing and reporting services. The Supreme Court held that the 1974 New York law was constitutional, because it had a secular purpose, its primary effect did not advance religion, and it did not entangle the state with organized religion. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Regan]

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