''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

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s 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

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of the

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. ''Aguilar v. Felton'' was subsequently overruled by '' Agostini v. Felton'', 521 U.S. 203 (1997).

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