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...bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...
...fact, though the federal legislation was carefully drawn to omit state spending, the mere participation of state officials may invite challenge. Many states also have their own vulnerable programs: New York, for example, is being attacked for lending public-school teachers and textbooks to parochial schools. Although the Maryland decision applies only to that state, it is sure to generate confusion and litigation elsewhere until the Supreme Court acts...
Guilt & Garbage. To hear some experts tell it, the Warren court has covered so much ground that it now faces its dullest term in 14 years. At first glance, the new docket promises few blockbuster decisions, such as those that banned public-school prayers in 1963 and curbed confessions last June. Yet the Warren court is hardly preparing to go out of business. Last week it faced requests to review lower-court decisions involving everything from labels on Swiss cheese to the right of students to sport beards and spurn haircuts. This week as it goes back to work...
Somewhere deep in the psyche of many U.S. adults lurks a triggering device that raises hackles whenever a boy with long hair passes by. Public-school officials seem unusually susceptible to this reaction-and spend countless hours haggling over the length of a lad's locks...
...teach in slow motion." But Frances McGlannan, whose own son's dyslexia led her to found the Language Arts Center in Miami to help such children, puts through 70 students at a time under 18 teachers, takes about a year to enable second-graders to rejoin their public-school classmates at the proper reading level. Older children take longer to catch...