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.

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.

In an effort to introduce yoga to shool children, Tara Guber has eliminated the chanting and translated Sanskrit words into kid-friendly English.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If the Book is offered as elective, here's what high schoolers may find

S.F. judges uphold decision on Contra Costa County case

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.

2 students, parents appeal ruling by federal judge

HOUSTON - When the school board in Odessa, a West Texas oil town, voted unanimously in April to add an elective Bible study course to the 2006 high school curriculum, some parents dropped to their knees in prayerful thanks that God would be returned to the classroom, while others assailed it as an effort to instill religious training in the public schools.

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