Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will meet with a delegation of 150 leaders of the American Jewish Congress tomorrow to discuss his proposed controversial student-aid program.
The AJC delegation is expected to oppose the Governor’s scholar incentive plan on the grounds that it is an attempt to circumvent a provision of the State Constitution which forbids the use of public funds “directly or indirectly” in aid of sectarian schools or colleges.
The delegation will be led by New York Domestic Relations Court Justice Maurice Bernhardt; Stanley Lowell, chairman of the New York City Commission on Intergroup Relations; and Howard M. Squadron, chairman of the Commission on Law and Social Action of the AJC New York Metropolitan Council.
Besides meeting with the Governor, individual delegations will call on legislative leaders and other State officials to present the AJC’s seven-point legislative program for 1961.
One of these proposals urges public funds for public education only, with no State aid-going to students at private or church-supported colleges and universities. Another proposal urges the repeal of the Speno bill, which requires local school boards to provide free bus transportation to parochial school pupils even where free transportation is not given to public school children.
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