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Nevada's Education Savings Accounts: A Constitutional Analysis, Thomas W. Stewart, Brittany Walker May 2016

Nevada's Education Savings Accounts: A Constitutional Analysis, Thomas W. Stewart, Brittany Walker

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

This piece will analyze potential conflicts between Senate Bill 302 and Article XI of the Nevada Constitution to explore the constitutionality of educational savings accounts.


The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York School Controversy 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum Jan 2008

The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York School Controversy 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum

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As the title suggests, this article explores the historical origins of secular public education, with a particular focus on the controversy surrounding the Catholic petitions for school funding in nineteenth-century New York City. The article first examines the development of Protestant nonsectarian common schools in the northeast, then turns to the New York controversy in detail, and finally explores that controversy's legacy in state constitutions and the Supreme Court. It is particularly concerned with two ideas generated in New York: (1) Bishop John Hughes' objection to nonsectarianism as the 'sectarianism of infidelity'; and (2) New York Secretary of State John …


The Future Of Guinn V. Legislature, Troy L. Atkinson Mar 2004

The Future Of Guinn V. Legislature, Troy L. Atkinson

Nevada Law Journal

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