Com., Dept. of Ed. v. First School
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ROBERTS, Justice.
This is an appeal 1 from a decision of the Commonwealth Court which held that the Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act (“Act 109”) 2 is constitutional and enforceable as applied to nonsectarian nonpublic schools. 3 Appellant, the Commonwealth Department of Education (“Department”), contends that Act 109 was declared unconstitutional in its entirety in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 91 S.Ct. 2105, 29 L.Ed.2d 745 (1971), and thus cannot be enforced even as to nonsectarian schools. The Department also argues that even if Act 109 was not held…
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