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Article: SCHOOL BOARDS WANT CLERGY MANDATE DROPPED CHURCH-STATE ISSUE CAUSES WORRY.(Local)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- November 18, 1987
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Byline: Tim Spofford Staff writer
The New York State School Boards Association is urging the Board of Regents to drop a new rule requiring school advisory councils on AIDS to include religious leaders among their members.
The local councils are to be composed of parents, school employees and religious leaders, and advise school boards on the content of new state-required lessons about acquired immune-deficiency syndrome.
By requiring that religious leaders sit on these councils in public schools, the Regents have violated both the state and federal constitutions, which call for the separation of church and state, said Louis Grumet, the ...