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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's fresh guidance about how to handle prayer in schools — at the risk of losing federal aid — amounts to a mandate for more religion in public education, a critic says. But supporters say the Education Department's directive may clarify the debate and free students and teachers to express themselves without fear of reprisal. The department's message: Schools must allow students to pray outside the classroom and permit teachers to do the same. At the same time, school officials cannot pray with students or try to promote or discourage a particular religious view. Under federal law, the burden is now on schools to prove they have no policy that prevents constitutionally protected prayer. The department's new guidelines make clear that schools can lose their federal aid funds if they don't comply...
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