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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 ...
Religion in public schools risks a deal with the devil, regardless of whether that religion is divinely inspired, the Satanic Temple or secular progressivism. New Albany resident Philip Derrow is ...
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 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 ...
Supreme Court rulings in 1948 and 1952 established that public school students could receive religious instruction during the school day, so long as the classes took place off school property and ...
District Board, 76 Wis. 177 (1890), popularly known as the Edgerton Bible case, was an important court case involving religious instruction in public schools of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The case was unanimously decided in favor of the appellants, and declared that the use of the King James Bible in Edgerton public schools was ...
The effect of this incident was the prohibition of school officials from organizing or leading prayers as well as devotional Bible reading in public schools. Abington v. Schempp required that school faculties should neither promote nor degrade religion. The Supreme Court next examined school prayer in 1985 with the case of Wallace v. Jaffree
The Texas Senate passed a bill that would require the prominent display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, reigniting a debate over the role of religion in schools and parental ...