This article argues that the relationship between religion and secular education in the United States can and must be renegotiated if public education is to survive challenges to its existence from conservative religious communities. Taking as its premise that such a renegotiation is constitutionally permissible, it examines several challenges any such effort must face and suggests six necessary, though not necessarily sufficient, criteria which ought to guide conversations aimed at rethinking this relationship in a multicultural democracy.
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