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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township
Definition
- In Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township (1947), the Supreme Court upheld a statute from New Jersey and a local school board's authorization to reimburse parents for the expense of bus transportation to school on public transportation for students who attended religiously affiliated, nonpublic schools. Everson was the first Supreme Court case to address public education and religion within the confines of the First Amendment.Everson came about after a local school board, pursuant to a New Jersey statute which authorized boards to make their own rules for transporting students to school, enacted a resolution that provided reimbursement to parents for transportation expenses. [Source: Encyclopedia of Education Law; Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township]
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Date
- 1947
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Everson_v._Board_of_Education_of_Ewing_Township
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