The state's education department prohibits schools from using public money to encourage the public to vote for a budget or proposition.

The Constitution, the court said, prohibited public schools or other governmental bodies from endorsing religion.

To insure that the evening-out process works, annual spending caps prohibit schools in property-rich districts from increasing expenditures by more than 4 percent.

This was the first law prohibiting segregated schools in the United States.

Would have prohibited public schools from supplying students with condoms.

Marshall argues the equal protection clause extends far enough to the states to prohibit segregated schools.

In fact, some states adopted laws prohibiting schools from educating blacks and whites together, even if a school was willing to do so.

It would prohibit public elementary and secondary schools from presenting homosexuality "as a healthy, approved or acceptable behavior."

New York State gives schools $20 million annually for hardware and software purchases, but prohibits schools from combining the funds.

After all, a 2002 federal law prohibited separate schools for homeless children.