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Lawmakers in 29 states have proposed at least 91 bills promoting religion in public schools this year, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State, an advocacy group backing a ...
Experts and advocates say there are multiple reasons the push to get more religion in schools has been getting more traction, but the biggest is the conservative Supreme Court, which has shown it ...
The Texas Board of Education approved a new K-5 curriculum that allows Bible teachings in classrooms. The curriculum includes Biblical and Christian lessons about Moses, the story of the Good ...
The 19th-century debates over public funding for religious schools, and reading the King James Bible in the public schools was most heated in 1863 and 1876. [3] Partisan activists on the public-school issue believed that exposing Catholic schoolchildren to that particular translation would loosen their affiliation to the Catholic Church. In ...
The case tested the principle of "released time" in which public schools set aside class time for religious instruction. The Court struck down a Champaign, Illinois, program as unconstitutional because of the public school system's involvement in the administration, organization, and support of religious instruction classes. The Court noted ...
One of the justices who dissented in that 5-4 decision, now-retired Justice David Souter, called the scale of public assistance to religious schools approved by the court “unprecedented.”
Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), in which the Supreme Court ruled that public education in religious matters" (1) must have a "secular purpose;" (2) must have a "principal or primary effect that neither advances nor inhibits religion;" (3) "must not foster 'an excessive government entanglement with religion.'" [5] Chancey found that the ...
This debate about the role of religion in public schools is cropping up across the nation, although it's not new, said Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at Michigan State University.