The Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a Minnesota school district’s operation of a rural school rented from a religious sect and attended only by children of the sect’s members. The justices, without comment, turned away arguments that the arrangement violates the constitutional separation of church and state. The American Jewish Congress said it was disappointed with the high court’s decision not to take the case because it raises important questions about how far public schools should go in accommodating religion.
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