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标题：Separation of Church and State: Fact or Fiction?
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作者：Wesley D. Hickey ; Peggy Gill ; Rebecca Ratliff Fredrickson 等
期刊名称：JEP : eJournal of Education Policy
电子版ISSN：2158-9232
出版年度：2008
出版社：Northern Arizona University
摘要：Court cases over the past several decades have been consistent in following the constitutional mandates separating religious issues and public education, thus eroding government sponsored activities associated with faith (Irons, 2007). This has created concern in some segments of society that values religious beliefs, and there are political groups that believe public school decline is due in part to a lack of religious instruction (Bergel, 1988). But how separate is church and state in our public schools? Are the legal precedents followed? The purpose of this paper is to look at the public schools' requirements in separating issues of church and state, and measuring whether this is the reality in schools in one area of the southern United States.