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 * Impact and Implications on or for schools **

This case was the beginning of “divided courts” when related to religious schools. Since 1947, and the decision in Everson v. Board of Education, the Court has been asked to determine which types of educational support services to parochial schools are permissible under the Constitution’s Establishment Clause.

Despite the contentious result reached in Everson, it remains one of the most important cases relating to church-state separation in Supreme Court case. It set the standard by which the religion clauses were to be interpreted. Using the Fourteenth Admendment, the Court applied the Establishment Clause to the states. However, it was not violated so long as money was not given directly to religious schools or gave them specific benefits.