Subsequently, the case Committee for Public Education and Religious Liberty v. Nyquist (1973) questioned a program, called the “Elementary and Secondary Opportunity Program,” which “provided tuition reimbursements to parents of children attending elementary or secondary nonpublic schools and a form of tax relief for those who failed to qualify for this reimbursement” (Wells & Biegel, 1993, p. 220). When looking to the Lemon test, the Court found that this program failed the second and third prong. With the state giving reimbursements, it demonstrated that these parents could continue to send their child to this religious institute in the future while it “carries potential for entanglement in the broader sense of continuing political strife
