Professor William Allan Kritsonis, PhD - Distinguished Alumnus, Central Washington University, College of Education and Professional Studies, Ellensburg, Washington.Dr. Kritsonis has traveled and lectured extensively throughout the United States and world-wide. Some international travels include Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Monte Carlo, England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, Switzerland, Grand Cayman, Haiti, St. Maarten, St. John, St. Thomas, St. Croix, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Nassau, Freeport, Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, Canada, Curacao, Costa Rico, Aruba, Venezuela, Panama, Bora Bora, Tahiti, Latvia, Spain, Honduras, and many more. He has been invited to lecture and serve as a guest professor at many universities across the nation and abroad.

1. Use of School Facilities
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

2. Free Exercise of Religion
• First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
• Free Speech.
• Establishment Clause.
• Free Exercise Clause.
• The Fourteenth Amendment.

3. Anti-discrimination Law, 106.001 of
Title 5 of the Civil Practices and
Remedies Code.
• (Lamb’s Chapel v. Center Moriches Union
Free School District). Free Speech Case.
• “Limited Public Forum.”
• Lamb’s Chapel Ruling. Courts ruled in
Lamb favor on grounds of discrimination.
• School district.
• School Property

4. U.S. Supreme Court
• Public Elementary School Campus.
• Milford Central School in Milford, New
York.
• Community Policy.
• Community Groups Access to School
Campuses.
• Good News Club.

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• Private Christian Organization.
• Access Granted to: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
and 4-H Club.
• Bible Reading.
• Open Forum.
• Fifth Circuit.
• Louisiana School District’s.

6. The Fifth Circuit/Supreme Court
• Federal District Court.
• (Campbell v. St. Tammany Parish School
Board). Christian Coalition discussion of
family and political issues. Excluded access
for religious purposes.
• Community Use Policy
• The Texas Education Code/Protect
Religious Freedom TEC 25.901.
• Disruption of Instructional or other
Activities.

7. School Prayer at:
• Graduation Ceremonies.
• Baccalaureate Ceremonies.
• Football/Basketball Games, and other
School Activities.
• Ruling in Lamb’s Chapel v. Center
Moriches Union Free School district.
• Wyoming Federal Court.

8. Establishment Clause
• (Shumay v. Albany County School
District).Case regarding student-Initiated
Prayer at School.
• Student-Initiated Prayer.
• The Fifth Circuit Upheld Decision.
• (Ingebretsen v. Jackson Public School
District, 1996).
• The Lemon Test. 3 part guidelines named
after the 1971 Lemon v. Jurtz.
• The Statute U.S. Court of Appeals struct
down statues enacted by Florida/Louisiana.

9. Nonsectarian and Non-proselytizing’ Prayer
• Excessive Entanglement, Religion and the
Federal Government.
• Lee v. Weisman. Case regarding
establishment clause issues in public
schools.
• Compulsory and Prayer.

10. Reference
Walsh, J. Kemerer, F. &
Maniotis, L. (2005). University
of Texas Press, Austin. Pp.253-
271.