FROM ISSUE NUMBER 88 - SUMMER 1987 GO TO TABLE OF CONTENTS
Religion, textbooks, and the common school
SEVERAL CASES that are making their way through the federal court system are causing alarm among supporters of public education. In a Tennessee case, the court found that a local school system violated the First Amendment rights of parents and students by requiring that the latter read a particular series of texts that violated their religious beliefs. In an Alabama case, the court found that the use of certain textbooks in public schools represented an unconstitutional “establishment of religion.”
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