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perchance from people of no religious beliefs—
to be used for teaching of religious views held
by specific groups of individuals .... The
support of sectarian schools by public funds
would result in a situation of this kind: If
one specific sect should receive and use such
public funds, obviously other groups would be
entitled to the use of public funds in their
schools. . . . There is the danger—and very
real danger—that the Government which provides
funds will ultimately, even though it does not
do so at the outset, attach conditions to the
use of such funds. The Government will thereby
interfere in the policies of the schools. . . .
Such use of public money . . . tends, and
strongly tends, to strike down what Thomas
Jefferson termed the "wall of separation between
church and state" (6, p. 20).
Senator Robert A. Taft presented a different view.
The issue is really a very narrow one.
The Supreme Court has in effect said that we
cannot appropriate money for education in sec-
tarian schools. The court has not ruled so
clearly, however, on certain incidental services.
There are 19 states which provide bus transporta-
tion for students attending parochial schools.
That does not involve any considerable expense.
. . . There are five states which give aid toward
furnishing free school books, which, to some
extent, reach those children. There are some
health services .... What the (general aid)
bill provides is that in cases where states pro-
vide such services they may use federal funds
to supplement their own money in connection with
the services. ... We should not interfere
with states which do not want to give these
services and which have disapproved of them in
many cases. We should no more force states to
give them than we should prevent the states that
want to give them from so doing (6, pp. 20-21).
Bailey and Mosher recognized that the shortage of
teachers, inflation, and increased enrollments created prob-
lems for sectarian schools as well as the public schools.
The Child Benefit Doctrine encouraged increased parochial
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Buell, Frank G. (Frank Garvin). A Study of Title II, Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and an Evaluation of Its Impact in Texas, dissertation, May 1971; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277917/m1/32/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .