Permanent Religious Symbols in Public Schools

This paper briefly analyzes two recent cases regarding the display of religious symbols in public schools in the United States and in Italy. Bearing in mind their different models of relation between law and religion and the other sources of diversity, nonetheless, a comparison between the two Countries can be made. Indeed, in both cases the display of religious symbols raises issues of State neutrality in the matter of education, and late developments in public policies signal a conceptual convergence.