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  2. School prayer in the United States - Wikipedia

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    School prayer in the United States if organized by the school is largely banned from public elementary, middle, and high schools by a series of Supreme Court decisions since 1962. Students may pray privately, and join religious clubs in after-school hours.

  3. Engel v. Vitale - Wikipedia

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    Weisman (1992), the court prohibited clergy-led prayer at middle school graduation ceremonies. Lee v. Weisman, in turn, was a basis for Santa Fe ISD v. Doe (2000), in which the Court extended the ban to school-organized student-led prayer at high school football games in which a majority of students voted in favor of the prayer. [28]

  4. School Prayer Amendment - Wikipedia

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    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

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  6. School prayer - Wikipedia

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    15.02 Where the parent or guardian of any pupil attending a public school sends a written notice to the teacher of the pupil stating that for conscientious reasons he does not wish the pupil to attend the ceremony of reading prescribed selections from the Bible and reciting the Lord’s Prayer at the opening of school, the teacher shall excuse ...

  7. Spring Hill middle school faces pushback for religious prayer ...

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    A Spring Hill middle school is receiving pushback after a school official was found mixing religious prayer into official school ceremonies — the second such time the official was recorded doing ...

  8. Abington School District v. Schempp - Wikipedia

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    Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.

  9. After a contentious debate, Broward School Board narrowly ...

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    “It’s just a statement of support of the Day of Prayer. It does not contain any language that states that the students are going to have to pray or not pray,” said Broward Schools Interim ...