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Sites discussing church-state issues as they relate to taxpayer-funded schools.

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• Abington v. Schempp

  http://www.project21.org/scot63.htm
  Text on the Supreme Court decision on school prayer in 1963, made available by The National Center for Public Policy Research's Constitution and the Courts Archive.

• ADL: Education

  http://www.adl.org/education/
  Information about Anti-Defamation League programs and initiatives for promoting diversity, combating anti-Semitism, remembering the Holocaust, and other topics in schools.

• Alliance for the Separation of School and State

  http://www.schoolandstate.org/
  Offers essays and a petition to sign.

• Can Public Schools Be Religiously Neutral?

  http://www.leaderu.com/humanities/neutral.html
  Argues that secular humanism is the "religion" currently being taught in public schools, and that the schools should therefore be open to all major religions.

• Challenging Religious Education

  http://www.angelfire.com/pe/pennyt/
  This site promotes the view that religious education (RE) in schools in England and Wales should encourage pupils to learn a faith as opposed to learn about faiths.

• Internet Infidels: School Prayer

  http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/prayer.html
  Collection of articles for and against government led prayer in the public schools.

• National Center for Science Education

  http://ncse.com/
  National organization devoted to defending the teaching of evolution in public schools, and keeping creationism out.

• National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools

  http://www.bibleinschools.net/
  A program to bring a state-certified elective Bible course, "The Bible as History and Literature", into the public high schools in the U.S. Provides streaming video, endorsements, and articles covering historical and legal issues, as well as related links.

• Pontotoc, Mississippi School Prayer Case

  http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/prayer.html
  An essay on the North Pontotoc school prayer trial in U.S. District Court, involving a suit brought by Lisa Herdahl of Mississippi against the Pontotoc County School District. Includes judicial decision and links.

• Public School Prayer Persecution

  http://www.mindspring.com/~wjager/billrel.html
  Presents arguments why prayer should not be permitted in public schools, and criticism of Christian conservatives.

• Religion and the Community School

  http://ozarkhowler.tripod.com/douglassel.html
  Discusses the experiences of one teacher with the intersection of the community school model with the desire of a community to include Christian teachings in their public school's activities.

• Religion in U.S. Public Schools

  http://www.religioustolerance.org/ps_pray.htm
  Presents both sides of the issue on religious activities in schools, with essays on current legal decisions.

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