ERIC Number: ED438609
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1999-Nov
Pages: 18
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Religion and the Schools: Emerging Issues.
Worona, Jay
This publication offers a brief review of religion and school issues that emerged in U.S. courts in 1999. Included are prayer in public schools; teacher's free exercise rights limited by establishment clause; impermissible student lessons and activities; teaching of evolution/creation science; volunteer clergy counselors in the schools; aid to parochial schools; vouchers; a special publicly funded school district for religious sect; and the use of school facilities for religious purposes by outside groups. Case notes are also provided for: religion; Eleventh Amendment; race-based admissions; Fourth Amendment; the Americans with Disabilities Act; employment, and Section 1983. The article ends by reviewing cases recently brought before the Supreme Court. (DFR)
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Regulation, Government School Relationship, Racially Balanced Schools, Religion, School Prayer, State Church Separation
NSBA Council of School Attorneys, 1680 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 ($80/6 issues). Tel: 703-838-6722; Web site: http://www.nsba.org/cosa.
Publication Type: Collected Works - Serials; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. Council of School Attorneys.
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Note: Published bimonthly. This article is a summarized version of a presentation given at the NSBA Council of School Attorneys'"School Law Retreat" (Charleston, SC, October 15-16, 1999).