ucational opportunity to an individual on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin. While much legislation has been passed to affirm equality in education, it is the Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974 that provides the foundation for all of it.
Issue #2: Public Funding of Private Schools
Still another concern in education law concerns private schools. According to La Morte (1998), while parents have a fundamental right to direct the education of their children by sending them to private schools, if they so choose, the United States Constitution does provide for some restrictions on governmental funding available to private schools. However, the exact parameters of this restriction are murky and consequently there have been numerous Supreme Court cases seeking to delineate the bounds of what is and is not constitutionally permitted public funding.
Related to the previous issue is that of religion in the schools. One of the issues involving state and federal funding to private schools, for example, has been whether and to what extent it is constitutionally permissible to provide public funding to privat
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