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...case of P.S. 54 was a fresh reminder to New Yorkers that their public-school system, though the nation's biggest (862,000 pupils), is a long jump from being its best, may well be among its worst big-city systems. Like P.S. 54, one-third of the city's 800 schools were built before 1900; 21 antedate the Civil War. More than 280 are fire traps, and 250 lack adequate plumbing (eight have only outhouses...
...Such a diversion of public-school funds involves the interlocking of the taxing function of the state with the institutional functioning of the church which owns and operates . . . schools. . . . The majority decision of the Supreme Court in the New Jersey case undertook to justify such aid to parochial schools by detaching bus transportation from the institutional functioning of the church, and even of the school. Having thus detached it, the court then classified bus transportation as a 'public welfare' measure...
...Released time" for religious instruction in public-school buildings is also unconstitutional. (". . . . The school instructors vacate their function and the several churches take it over...
...Similarly, the Century approved of "the study of religion as an integral part of the public-school curriculum under the instruction of regular public-school teachers...
...Seattle, the public-school system hired its first two Negro schoolmarms...