Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet (1994) – Part Two
Posted by Blue Cereal on Thursday, 12 November 2020Kiryas Joel was (and is) a community of particularly insular Hasidic Jews (the Satmars) in New York. Most of their children attended private religious schools, but they asked the state for assistance providing care and education for their special needs children. Initial efforts to serve these particular children ran into conflict with recent Supreme Court rulings which struck down several public school efforts to serve high needs kids in religious institutions. New York responded by allowing the Satmars to create their own neighborhood and later a publicly funded neighborhood school tailored to their precise boundaries.
As a practical matter, it certainly solved the problem. Constitutionally, on the other hand...