The principal and religious activity

Religious activity in public schools has become a major issue in the 1990s as result of the Equal Access Act and Lamb’s Chapel, but neither has eliminated the Establishment Clause as a viable concern for public school officials. Despite indications that student religious expression is protected to the same extent as other forms of free speech, legitimate concerns still exist re garding p ublic school endorsement of relig ion. eligious activities in public secondary schools has become one of the signature legal issues of the 1990s. Prior to 1990, much of the legal discussion concerning the relationship of religion and government was governed by the tripartite Lemon v Kurtzman (1971) test under the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. That test, initially framed in the context of determining whether gov-ernment aid to religious schools was constitutional, was extended to almost every interaction between government and religion. The result was that vir-tually every effort to bring religious activities within public schools faile