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America began as a significant Protestant majority nation. Significant minorities of Roman Catholics and Jews did not arise until the period between 1880 and 1910. Altogether, Protestants comprised the majority of the population until 2012 when the Protestant share of U.S. population dropped to 48%, thus ending its status as religion of the ...
Mainstream Protestantism began with the Magisterial Reformation, so called because it received support from the magistrates (that is, the civil authorities). The Radical Reformation , had no state sponsorship.
Pages in category "Protestantism in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F.
The Catholic parochial school system developed in the early-to-mid-19th century partly in response to what was seen as anti-Catholic bias in American public schools. [citation needed] The recent wave of newly established Protestant schools is sometimes similarly attributed to the teaching of evolution (as opposed to creationism) in public schools.
The same act in 1858 also allowed each county to convene its own "board of examiners" to certify teachers, and an act of the following year allowed each county to convene a board of education. Finally, in 1870, the Georgia State Board of Education was established, and was originally composed of the Governor, the Attorney General, the Secretary ...
Public schools that violate the law would have their state aid withheld and be banned from participating in the Georgia High School Association, the state's main athletic and extracurricular body.
The Georgia Department of Education began requiring abstinence education in public schools in 1994. Some districts continue to teach the same sex education curriculum that has been taught for ...
Georgia's Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state's public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing ...