{"id":50377,"date":"2015-06-19T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_legal_requirements_for_re_and_worship_in_schools_questioned\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T17:00:44","slug":"church_times_legal_requirements_for_re_and_worship_in_schools_questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50377","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Legal requirements for RE and worship in schools questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 1944 settlement, the basis for governing religious education, school worship, and denominational schools for the past seven decades, should be replaced with an agreement in tune with modern reality, a former Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke, said this week.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Clarke calls for the change in a pamphlet, A New Settlement: Religion and belief in schools, cowritten with Professor Linda Woodhead, a colleague at Lancaster University, where he is a visiting professor in politics and religion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is clear to us&#8221;, they say, &#8220;that the educational settlement between Church and State formalised in the 1944 Education Act, and reflected a different era, no longer serves its purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/19-june\/news\/uk\/legal-requirements-for-re-and-worship-in-schools-questioned\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1944 settlement, the basis for governing religious education, school worship, and denominational schools for the past seven decades, should be replaced with an agreement in tune with modern reality, a former Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke, said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50377\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39,74,101,389,111,133,114,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-provinces","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-history","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}