Legal Opinion

Attorney General Opinion No.

Kansas Attorney General Reports

Decided February 5, 1997Published

1Opinion of the Court

The Honorable Don Steffes State Senator, 35th District State Capitol, 128S Topeka, Kansas 66612

Dear Senator Steffes:

As Senator for the Thirty-Fifth District, you request our opinion regarding the authority of a unified school district to provide transportation for pupils attending a public school. Specifically, you ask whether a unified school district may divert a school bus from its regular transportation route one afternoon a week so as to provide transportation of pupils to catechism classes.

Based on the information provided, it appears Unified School District No. 397 (USD 397, Centre)…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Lemon v. KurtzmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Everson v. Board of Ed. of EwingSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
  3. Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. NyquistSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  4. Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches Union Free School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  5. Board of Ed. of Kiryas Joel Village School Dist. v. GrumetSupreme Court of the United States · 1994

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