Cheryl Chamblin
August 07, 2011
Exploring Education as a Profession
Latonya Pitts

The Evolving Role of State and Federal Government in U.S. Education

America established with the right to choose the religion that suited the people a right that is taken very seriously among the people of America. They escaped countries where they were forced to worship in one way. When they came to America, That freedom made America great. That freedom can also cause quite a bit of controversy in the public school system. The American public school system is not equipped to deal with the many different religions that the American families may have.
The public education system has changed throughout the years as different amendments were added to the United States Constitution. This paper will examine certain cases that that have influenced the American school system. The separation of church and state in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a separation of personal beliefs that is so different then one another and this makes religion a complicated issue for the public schools (Davis, 2003).
Many significant cases have been set to change the direction of education to provide an equal education system Lau versus Nichols in 1974 under the fourteenth amendment of equal protection clause. This case under the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits federally, funded programs from discriminating of the basis of race and national origin. This law-required school districts to take affirmative steps to limit the language deficiency of students, schools should teach English as a second language and not there only language.
In 1982 Board of Education, Verses Rowley, a student with a hearing disability requested a sign language interpreter for their academic classes. In addition, with a free and appropriate public educates for all students