The Nation - News from March 13, 1987
The Alabama Board of Education narrowly voted to appeal a decision banning 44 textbooks from the state’s public schools. The board voted 5 to 4 to appeal U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand’s ruling that the books violate the U.S. Constitution’s separation of church and state because they advance man-centered secular humanism as a religion. The case originally involved 45 textbooks, but one home economics book is no longer used in Alabama school systems and was dropped from the ban.
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