The Supreme Court is gradually weakening the wall that has separated religion from public life for nearly 70 years.

Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, et al. Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP’s Special Counsel and lead counsel for the plaintiffs, argued the case before the Supreme ...

Hayesphotography / Getty Images The US Supreme Court has upheld this interpretation in key cases, such as Everson v. Board of Education (1947), which applied the Establishment Clause to state ...

During an oral argument on Wednesday, the Supreme Court appeared all but certain to divide along party lines in a case that seeks to fundamentally expand the role religion plays in American public ...

Society of Sisters, another Supreme Court ruling (Everson v. Board of Education, 1947) found that a New Jersey statute that provided parental re-imbursement for busing to non-public schools ...

The Roberts Court’s slash-and-burn approach to the separation of church and state is unlikely to end any time soon.

The former Buchanan School was one of of four all-Black schools the Topeka district operated at the time of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. Evert Nelson Topeka Capital-Journal file photo ...

Some advocates are battling to make schools more diverse. Schools in the U.S. remain deeply divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, even as studies show that the K-12 public school ...

In 1947, the U. S. Supreme Court decided the case of Everson v. Board of Education and thereby officially enshrined into American constitutional law the principle of separation of church and state.

Thomas Jefferson clearly articulated in an 1802 letter that the United States should have “a wall of separation between church & state.” Our nation was founded with a respect for all religions ...

Everson v. Board of Education. In Everson, the court upheld a state statute that allowed local school boards to transport students to faith-based schools – mostly Roman Catholic ones ...