Basically, the Court upheld the programs struck down in Felton I and Ball.
The remedial courses are purely secular (they are regular public school courses simply being taught on private school campuses. As the Court puts it on p. 1832:
. . . We . . . hold that a federally funded program providing supplemental, remedial instruction to disadvantaged children on a neutral basis is not invalid under the Establishment Clause when such instruction is given on the premises of sectarian schools by government employees pursuant to a program containing safeguards such as those present here. . . . Accordingly, we must acknowledge that Aguilar, as well as the portion of Ball addressing Grand Rapids’ Shared Time program, are no longer good law.
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