School Board Battles
Subtitle: The Christian Right in Local Politics (Religion and Politics Series (Georgetown University).)
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781589010000
Subjects: School board members; Religion in the public schools; Education / Teaching; Education; United States; Religion, Politics & State; Administration - General; Kansas; Organization & management of education; Reference; Christians; Political activity
First sentence: The first public schools-started more than 350 years ago when Massachusetts became the first colony to establish compulsory education for all children, in 1642-were founded on religious principles (Berkeley and Fox 1978).