—if the cost of school buses and the maintenance and operation thereof is in aid of the public schools, then it would seem to necessarily follow that when pupils of parochial schools are transported by them such service is in aid of that school.

In most of the state courts where the question has been presented, the legislation has been held to violate state constitutional restrictions.

—the next in this line of cases, any survey of our jurisprudence on the issue before us requires its consideration.

The Supreme Court of Oklahoma has held that Article II, § 5 of that state's constitution prevents use of public funds to transport parochial school students to school.

Seven times in six states, courts in rejecting the child benefit theory had found transportation an aid to the school and therefore an unconstitutional assistance to sectarian education

Furthermore, applying the "true beneficiary theory" to uphold the school voucher programs would effectively make the Aid Clause of the Arizona Constitution redundant, since " `practically every proper expenditure for school purposes aids the child.'"

Constitutional prohibition on use of public money for a church or denomination prohibits use of funds for sectarian schools, and thus renders unconstitutional a statute providing for transportation of children attending parochial schools.

—but the local school board had asked the highest Oklahoma court to re-examine its position in light of the 1947 Everson case, supra.

—or sect and its religious symbolism was obscured by the commercial atmosphere in which it was placed.

—the Oklahoma Supreme Court held that sectarian schools are sectarian institutions and ruled that aid to sectarian schools was unconstitutional under article II, section 5.