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Public School in California Ordered to Cease Recitation of Prayer

March 15, 1963
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A teacher in a public school here was ordered today by the Dublin Board of Education to halt a practice of starting her daily classes with the Lord’s Prayer. This was believed to be the last public school in California with this practice.

The order was issued to Mrs. Ellin Nevins after the board received an opinion from the Alemada county district attorney’s office that such recitation in a public school violated the state education code as well as the U.S. Constitution.

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