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Kim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Past U.S. Supreme Court rulings have held that schools and school employees must be careful to engage in religious activities while at school that could appear to endorse a particular religion above others or coerce students to engage in religious activities. However, the June 2022 Kennedy v. Bremerton School District opinion suggests that the…
Descriptors: State Church Separation, Religion, School Prayer, Court Litigation
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Roberts, Robert – NASSP Bulletin, 2022
The United States Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. held that a local school district violated the First Amendment freedom of religious expression rights when it directed an assistant football coach to stop praying on the fifty-yard line of a high school football field after each game. In finding for the high-school football coach,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Constitutional Law, Religion, State Church Separation
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Bennett, Tom; Foldesy, George – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution sets forth the separation of church and state required in public schools. That clause has been interpreted in a lengthy history of U. S. Supreme Court decisions. Nevertheless, accommodating one person's right of religious expression while not infringing on another person's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, State Church Separation