tailieunhanh - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 4 P10

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 4 P10 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | EDUCATION LAW 79 or reading curriculum included content that was contrary to the family s religious convictions and values thus restricting the family s right to engage in its chosen religion. Likewise a series of state and federal statutes has been challenged on separation-of-church-and-state grounds. The courts have ruled that the following practices do not violate the First Amendment religion clauses Transportation of students to private sectarian schools at public expense Public purchase of secular textbooks for use in religious schools Use of school facilities by religious organizations pursuant to policies that allow nonreligious groups to use such facilities Release of students from public schools to attend religious instruction classes Provision of a signer at public expense for a deaf student in a religious school Permission for student-organized religious clubs to meet on school property during the noninstructional part of the day Practices that have been prohibited by the courts include the following Sending public school teachers into private sectarian schools to provide remedial instruction Providing a publicly funded salary supplement to teachers in religious schools Racial Segregation The . Supreme Court s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education 349 . 294 75 S. Ct. 753 99 L. Ed. 1083 held unconstitutional the deliberate segregation of schools by law on account of race. Brown overruled the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson 163 . 537 16 S. Ct. 1138 in which the Court had recognized that separate accommodations based on race were constitutionally valid. Based on Plessy schools could separate black and white school children but this practice ended with the decision in Brown. The principles enunciated in Brown provided the foundation for new federal laws that expanded access to education and other public services to previously underserved populations such as disabled students and adults. In Brown four separate cases from Delaware Kansas South .