''Aguilar v. Felton'', 473 U.S. 402 (1985), was a
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case holding that
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's program that sent
public school teachers into
parochial schools to provide remedial education to disadvantaged children pursuant to Title I of the
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necessitated an excessive
entanglement of church and state and violated the
Establishment Clause
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of the
First Amendment to the United States Constitution
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.
''Aguilar v. Felton'' was subsequently overruled by ''
Agostini v. Felton'', 521 U.S. 203 (1997).
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