Word: barden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort to Congress, and there is a strong likelihood that he will, the legislators will be faced with two bills for improvement of education, each tagged at $300,000,000. The other is the program of federal aid to states for schools, which may emerge from committee as the Barden Bill or something less controversial...
These numerous bills are all based on the undeniable premise that America's school system is in bad shape, and all propose to give the 48 States some federal money to ease the situation. Unfortunately one of these proposals, the Barden Bill, has raised such a violent religious and political row that the 25 members of the Education Committee, inspired by Mr. Lesinski's example have retired to their fences, with every intention of remaining there for some time...
This controversial Barden Bill wants to give the money to the States with the sole proviso that it not be used for so-called "auxiliary aids"--health programs, buses to and from school, and so on. Since these auxiliary aids are in some States granted to Catholic parochial schools, the Catholic hierarchy, particularly Cardinal Spellman of New York, has argued that this constitutes discrimination. If a child in a public school gets a bottle of milk at public cost, Spellman says, the government is morally obliged to give a bottle of milk to a Catholic child in his parochial school...
...aids as building private or parochial school buildings) primarily for the benefit of the individual student or for the school he attends. If they serve the school, then the First Amendment really does apply; if they serve the individual, then Cardinal Spellman may well be right in calling the Barden Bill discriminatory...
...more. The hubbub has worried enough Catholic-conscious Representatives into joining the economizers and the I-don't-want-any-centralized-thought-control people in sitting heavily on all Federal aid to education. Now not even the Senate-passed Thomas Bill, which differs only from the Barden Bill in leaving the appropriations entirely up to the states, is expected to get anywhere. Federal aid to education is a long...