Aid+Directed+to+Religious+Schools

Aid Directed to Religious Schools:
A. Direct government grants to church-related private schools for building manintence in poverty areas and for instructional expenses in secular courses were overturned as unconstitutional. B. Comparable direct government subsides to church-related orphanages or protectories have withstood similar challenges. C. State reimbursement of church school expenses to conduct state mandated student achievements test and to report the results to the state have been upheld **Information found at:** [] The **Establishment Clause of the First Amendment** refers to the first of several pronouncements in the [|First Amendment to the United States Constitution], stating that " [|Congress] shall make no [|law] respecting an establishment of [|religion] ". Together with the [|Free Exercise Clause] ("... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"), these two clauses make up what are commonly known as the "religion clauses" of the First Amendment. The establishment clause has generally been interpreted to prohibit 1) the establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference of one religion over another. The first approach is called the "separation" or "no aid" interpretation, while the second approach is called the "non-preferential" or "accommodation" interpretation. The accommodation interpretation prohibits Congress from preferring one religion over another, but does not prohibit the government's entry into religious domain to make accommodations in order to achieve the purposes of the Free Exercise Clause.
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 * I. Aid Directed to Religious Schools **