President Clinton called for guidelines to control the involvement of faith- based groups in the charter school movement, but made clear that charter schools have to be non-sectarian. The American Jewish Congress says faith-based groups can have arrangements with charter schools provided they abide by constitutional limitations requiring the separation of church and state in public education.
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