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New Rochelle Shelves Resolution on Using Prayer in Schools

December 7, 1951
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A resolution ordering teachers in the public schools of this city to open the day in class with a “brief, non-denominational prayer, was shelved this week by the Board of Education after a member had questioned the constitutionality of the measure.

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