SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES?

No. {ii—OCTOBER TERM, 1946.

Arch R. Ererson, Appellant, Appeal from the Court.

'1). ' of Errors and Ap—
peals of the State of
New Jersey.

Board of Education of the"
Township of Ewing, et, al.
, I

[February ', 1947.]

Bin. thsTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court

A New Jersey statute authorizes its local school dis-
tricts to male rules and contracts for the transportation
of children to and from schools.1 The appellee. a town—
shipboard of education. authorized reimbursement to par—
ents of money expended by them for the bus transporta-
tion of their children. Part of this money was for the
payment of transportation of some children in the com-
munity to Catholic parochial schools. These church-
schools give their students, in addition to secular educa-
tion, regular religious instruction conforming to the reli—
gious tenets and modes of worship of the Catholic Faith.
The superintendent of these schools is a Catholic priest.

1 “Whenever in any district there are children living: remote from
any schoolhouse the hoard of education of the district may make
rules and contracts for the transportation of such children to and
from school, including the t1‘ans1mrtation of school children to and
from sc'hool other than a pulxlic school, except such school as is
operated [or profit in whole or in part.

“When any school district provides any transportation for public
school children to and l'rom school. transportation from any point
in such estalilished school route to any other point in such estab-
lished school route shall he supplied to school children residing in
such school district in going to and from school other than a puhlic
school, except such school as is operated for prolit in whole or in part.”
NewJerseyLaws,lttll,c.1tt1,p.551; N. J. Rev. Stat. 15: 14—8.