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Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002), was a 5–4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld an Ohio program that used school vouchers.The Court decided that the program did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as long as parents using the program were allowed to choose among a range of secular and religious schools.
Secular educational systems were a modern development intended to replace religious ecclesiastical and rabbinic schools (like the heder) in Western Europe.Secular schools were to function as a cultural foundation to diffuse the values of a human culture that was a product of man's own faculty for reason.
The typical wording, "religious sects or denominations," is most often used to challenge support to Catholic parochial schools (38% of private school attendance); Protestant schools with an undifferentiated "Christian" often get a pass. [7] These schools often claim both "nonsectarian" and "Christian" in their promotional materials.
Ohio Northern University: Ada: Private not-for profit Baccalaureate college 3,695 1871 Ohio State University [16] Columbus: Public Doctoral/highest research university 58,322 1870 Ohio Technical College: Cleveland: Private for-profit Associate's college 1,500 1969 Ohio Wesleyan University: Delaware: Private not-for profit Baccalaureate college ...
As a whole, university professors were less religious than the general US population, but it is hardly the case that the professorial landscape is characterized by an absence of religion. In the study, 9.8% were atheists, 13.1% were agnostic, 19.2% believe in a higher power, 4.3% believe in God some of the time, 16.6% had doubts but believed in ...
Supreme Court rulings in 1948 and 1952 established that public school students could receive religious instruction during the school day, so long as the classes took place off school property and ...
Discourse surrounding Ohio's religious liberties has found its way into state legislation. An Ohio House bill introduced in March 2024 would "require school districts to adopt a policy authorizing ...
Religious education in Church of England schools is monitored by the local diocese, but does not typically take up much more of the timetable than in secular schools. Although not state schools, there are around 700 unregulated madrassas in Britain, attended by approximately 100,000 Muslim