Religion and the Schools: Emerging Issues.

This publication offers a brief review of religion and school issues that emerged in U.S. courts in 1999. Included are prayer in public schools; teacher's free exercise rights limited by establishment clause; impermissible student lessons and activities; teaching of evolution/creation science; volunteer clergy counselors in the schools; aid to parochial schools; vouchers; a special publicly funded school district for religious sect; and the use of school facilities for religious purposes by outside groups. Case notes are also provided for: religion; Eleventh Amendment; race-based admissions; Fourth Amendment; the Americans with Disabilities Act; employment, and Section 1983. The article ends by reviewing cases recently brought before the Supreme Court. (DFR)