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The case tested the principle of "released time" in which public schools set aside class time for religious instruction. The Court struck down a Champaign, Illinois, program as unconstitutional because of the public school system's involvement in the administration, organization, and support of religious instruction classes. The Court noted ...
The Supreme Court agreed with the Court of Appeals that the injunction was not dissolved by the 1977 order because the District Court did not explain what it meant by unitary. The Court did not uphold their reasoning relying on Swift. Federal supervision of school boards was intended to remedy past discrimination.
Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563 (1968), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that in the absence of proof of the teacher knowingly or recklessly making false statements the teacher had a right to speak on issues of public importance without being dismissed from their position. [1]
The future of the country’s first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices agreed to take up the case on Friday.. In a court ...
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has held that state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters and the state agency and board he leads do not have the authority to determine what books can be in an individual ...
Former Chicago alderman avoided prosecution by cooperating in another corruption probe
The defendant in the case was the public school district of Champaign, Illinois; instructors chosen by three religious faiths had taught religion classes within the district's schools. McCollum wrote a book on the case, One Woman's Fight (1953), became a world traveler and served two terms as president of the American Humanist Association from ...
The court set 10 a.m. April 2 to hear the arguments during an en banc hearing in the Supreme Court’s courtroom at the state Capitol. According to the filing, each side will have 30 minutes to ...