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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 appeal granted review on Friday argued that a state violates the 1st Amendment's protection for the free exercise of religion if it excludes religious schools from its public-funded charter ...
No State shall make any law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; and no money raised by taxation in any State for the support of public schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, nor any public lands devoted thereto, shall ever be under the control of any religious sect; nor shall any money so raised or lands so devoted be divided between ...
In 1945, Vashti McCollum brought legal action against the Champaign, Illinois public school district. McCollum was the mother of a student in the district. McCollum's suit stated that her eight-year-old son had been coerced and ostracized by school officials because her family had chosen to not participate in the district's in-school religious instruction program.
But Michael Moreland, professor of law and religion at Villanova University, said much of the court’s decision will turn on whether charter schools are considered public.
Oklahoma law requires all charter schools in the state to be “nonsectarian,” and the U.S. Supreme Court established decades ago that religious instruction in public schools violates the First ...
1948, banning religious instruction in public schools; 1952, allowing religious instruction off school property during regular school hours; 1962, banning teacher-led prayer from public schools; 1963, banning Bible-reading and the recital of the Lord's Prayer in public schools; 1973, allowing state funding for textbooks and teachers' salaries ...
The Supreme Court decided Committee for Public Education & Religious Liberty v. Nyquist and Sloan v. Lemon in 1973. In both cases, states—New York and Pennsylvania—had enacted laws whereby public tax revenues would be paid to low-income parents so as to permit them to send students to private schools. It was held that in both cases, the ...