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Is a high school graduation in a Wisconsin church unconstitutional?

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Minnesota Public Radio, April 1, 2013

The Supreme Court today released its orders for the week without any decision on whether to hear the Wisconsin case, after an appeals court ruled that Elmbrook School District’s decision on where to hold its graduations violates the separation of church and state, partly because students could opt not to attend their graduation if they didn’t want to be “immersed in religion.”