Violation Of The Establishment Clause

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In this case, the courts should rule that there is no violation of the Establishment Clause.
There is no evidence in the provided document that laws were created for Hasidic Judaism that violate this portion of the 1st Amendment. If a sub-division which grows into a town is legally developed and all laws were properly followed, there is no reason why said town could not potentially be granted the authority to have its own school district. In this case, the New York legislature granted the town the ability to form its own school district. It should not matter that all or almost all of the residents of the town are of the same religion. As long as no laws were broken and there was no discrimination committed in both the building of the town and in the legislature granting the right of the town to form its own school board, there is nothing wrong with the process.
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Therefore, any handicapped students from neighboring school districts who want to go to the school in Kiryas Joel cannot be rejected on religious grounds. In addition, the school district must offer to pay tuition to neighboring school districts if it has any students who wish to attend traditional public schools. There is no evidence presented in the text that Kiryas Joel did not or would not provide these opportunities for students and parents (presumably of other faiths) who ask for

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