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... recurring disputes in the United States concerning the posting of the ten commandments on public property ... conservative religious groups have taken the banning of officially sanctioned prayer from public schools by the U.S ... Supreme Court as a threat to the expression of religion in public life ...
... ruling, which declared the teaching of "creation science" in public schools to be an unconstitutional establishment of religion, Louisiana's version of the "Equal Time" legislation was put to the test ... advocating that it be given equal time in public schools and textbooks as the "only" alternative to evolution—while at the same time working on a public school textbook, which eventually ... "creation science" be taught on an equal basis with evolution in public schools ...
... The PSUSD used to have 5 other public schools in Palm Springs and one other in Cathedral City ... Until the 1950s, the PSUSD had separate school campuses for African-American, Latino, Asian-American and American Indian students when school segregation was then legal, then came the mandated policy of racial ... Local celebrities and billionaires like Walter Annenberg and Frank Sinatra boosted public schools in the city and desert, whom also personally fought against racial and ethnic segregation of public schools ...
... The Whitewater Unified School District (WWUSD) contains five schools ... Whitewater High School (WHS) Whitewater Middle School (WMS) Washington Elementary School Lakeview Elementary School LINCS Charter School (formerly Lincoln Elementary School) ...
... This school division contains public schools serving the independent city of Richmond, Virginia ... It is occasionally described locally as Richmond City Public Schools to emphasize its connection to the independent city rather than the Richmond-Petersburg ...
Famous quotes containing the words schools and/or public:
“To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination.... After the racist statutes are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)
“He believes without reservation that Kentucky is the garden spot of the world, and is ready to dispute with anyone who questions his claim. In his enthusiasm for his State he compares with the Methodist preacher whom Timothy Flint heard tell a congregation that “Heaven is a Kentucky of a place.””
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)