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Tuesday January 22, 2008
Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg. • Schools and Religion:
In what could eventually become a statewide precedent in California, a Riverside County judge has found no legal basis for a lawsuit brought on behalf of two girls kicked out of a Christian school for an alleged lesbian relationship.
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Friday August 24, 2007
Schools and Religion:
An Illinois man lost a federal lawsuit that accused his daughter’s school district of unconstitutionally endorsing religion when it allowed a Texas-based evangelist to lead anti-drug assemblies.
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Tuesday August 7, 2007
Schools and Religion:
In the UK, angry parents take a school to task for making children practice their handwriting by copying a Muslim prayer.
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Monday July 16, 2007
Schools and Religion:
Teenager Lydia Playfoot today lost her High Court challenge over a ban preventing her from wearing a Christian “purity ring”.
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Friday June 22, 2007
Schools and Religion:
A 16-year-old girl has gone to the High Court to accuse her school of discriminating against Christians by banning the wearing of purity rings.
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Thursday March 22, 2007
Schools and Religion:
The niqab left them utter strangers to me and their classmates, who simply forgot about them. The veil that those young women wore utterly isolated them. They sat in the classroom with us, but they weren’t part of the group. They were effectively invisible.
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Tuesday March 20, 2007
Islam • Schools and Religion:
Students in England could be banned from wearing full-face Muslim veils for security or educational reasons under government guidelines to be published on Tuesday, officials said.
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Thursday March 8, 2007
Schools and Religion:
Liberty Union High School District officials have changed their stance on religious references in yearbook advertisements after parents raised concerns about freedom of speech constraints.
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Religious Intolerance • Schools and Religion:
A civil liberties group has sued a public school district for holding its graduation ceremonies in a Baptist church, calling it a violation of a Muslim student’s religious freedom.
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Friday February 23, 2007
Schools and Religion:
A Kearny High School junior on Monday drew some legal heavyweights into his battle with school officials over a teacher’s proselytizing in class.
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Thursday February 15, 2007
Schools and Religion • Science and Religion:
The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker’s call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.
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Schools and Religion • Science and Religion:
The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for advocates of “intelligent design,” who had helped write the standards that are being jettisoned.
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Sunday February 11, 2007
Mormonism/Mormon Church • Schools and Religion:
Initially, the differences between Liahona Academy in Pleasant Grove, the state’s only LDS-based high school, and other schools around the state are subtle.
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Monday January 29, 2007
Schools and Religion • Yoga:
In an effort to introduce yoga to shool children, Tara Guber has eliminated the chanting and translated Sanskrit words into kid-friendly English.
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Friday January 12, 2007
Schools and Religion:
State Board of Education members Thursday approved new academic courses on the Bible, allowing Georgia’s public high schools for the first time to offer taxpayer-funded classes devoted to the Good Book.
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Monday December 18, 2006
Schools and Religion:
Shortly after school began in September, teacher David Paszkiewicz told his sixth-period students at Kearny High School that evolution and the Big Bang were not scientific, that dinosaurs were aboard Noah’s ark, and that only Christians had a place in heaven, according to audio recordings made by a student whose family is now considering a lawsuit claiming Mr. Paszkiewicz broke the church-state boundary.
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Thursday November 16, 2006
Schools and Religion:
Seventy Church of Engand and Roman Catholic bishops were urged today to intervene to help thousands of Christian students at British universities from having the organisations representing them banned.
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Tuesday October 31, 2006
Schools and Religion:
A novel that has been part of social studies lessons on ancient Rome for seventh-grade honors classes is drawing protests from some parents who complain that it promotes Christianity and casts Jews in a negative light.
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Monday July 31, 2006
Schools and Religion:
GEORGETOWN, Del. — After her family moved to this small town 30 years ago, Mona Dobrich grew up as the only Jew in school. Mrs. Dobrich, 39, married a local man, bought the house behind her parents’ home and brought up her two children as Jews.
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Saturday July 22, 2006
Schools and Religion:
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Sikh, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, and Christian - each faith has its holy days. Schools across the country are asking how to respect them all.
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Wednesday April 19, 2006
Schools and Religion:
UC Hastings College of the Law is entitled to deny funding and official recognition to a Christian student group because it bars gays, lesbians and non-Christians as members, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Monday March 20, 2006
Schools and Religion:
If the Book is offered as elective, here's what high schoolers may find
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Saturday November 19, 2005
Schools and Religion:
S.F. judges uphold decision on Contra Costa County case
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Thursday October 27, 2005
Schools and Religion:
TAMPA - -- After weeks of delay and debate, the Hillsborough County School Board approved a 2006-07 calendar minus holidays for Yom Kippur, Good Friday or the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Fitr.
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Thursday October 20, 2005
Schools and Religion:
2 students, parents appeal ruling by federal judge
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- Why banning religious dress in schools is a lesson in common sense
- Schools to teach UK's six main religions
- Teenager loses purity ring legal battle
- LDS-based Liahona Academy puts God back into school
- Stripped of spiritualism, yoga stretches into public schools
- Civil liberties group sues New Jersey public school district for holding graduation ceremony in church
- English schools get right to ban Muslim veils
- Teaching the Bible
- UK: Purity ring case in High Court
- Student, 16, Finds Allies in His Fight Over Religion
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