ng to the First Amendment clause, which is separation of church and state, Everson presented his case to the Supreme Court.
             The Board of Education in the township of Ewing, following directions in accordance with a New Jersey statute that allows local school districts to make policy, procedural, and contractual decisions for the busing of schoolchildren, reimbursed local parents for cost of child transportation to and from school (Everson v Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, (1947), n.d.). Some of these students attend a Catholic School where theology and religious tenets are standard curriculum and the superintendent is a priest (Everson v Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, (1947), n.d.). The Board of Education felt it was well within the full scope of the statute in reimbursing the families of parochial schoolchildren as well as those in public schools.
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