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Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1]
In other words, the pivotal 1962 Engel v. Vitale school-prayer decision was a parental rights case. Schools had to change. Two years ago, the Montgomery County Board of Education created a policy ...
The Battle Over School Prayer : How Engel v. Vitale Changed America is a 2007 book by Bruce Dierenfield about the United States Supreme Court decision Engel v. Vitale. The Battle for School Prayer is noted for providing background about the plaintiffs based on personal interviews.
Vitale (1962) and Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000), have consistently held that public school officials, including coaches, cannot initiate or lead religious activities like prayer.
In the cases Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), the United States Supreme Court ruled that government mandated school prayer is unconstitutional under the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. However voluntary prayer is not unconstitutional.
In these two landmark decisions, Engel v. Vitale (1962) and Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), which focused primarily on school-sponsored Bible reading, the Supreme Court established what is now the current prohibition on state-sponsored prayer in US schools.
The Court cited New York's recent decision in the case Engles v. Vitale where the state had allowed officials of a school district to order its teachers to teach and lead students in a nondenominational prayer crafted by the government to remain in place as long as more safeguards were put into place to insure that students and parents were ...
Consolidated with Abington School District v. Schempp (1963), it was heard by the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that officially sanctioned mandatory Bible-reading in American public schools was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court had prohibited officially sponsored prayer in schools in Engel v. Vitale (1962) on