Education

California School Curtails Christian Students’ First Amendment Rights

by Jim Brown December 28, 2005

A spokesman for the advocacy group known as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) says California State University at San Bernardino is discriminating against a Christian student group in a way that has become all too common on…

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Protecting the Right to Pray in Texas

by CE Editors December 27, 2005

On November 8, 2005, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty wrote the principal of L.V. Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas (outside Dallas) to demand that he immediately “cease and desist from [the] school’s illegal decision to punish Muslim students”…

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English First Advocate Feels School Rightly Suspended Student for Speaking Spanish

by CE Editors December 15, 2005

The head of a group that advocates making English the official language of the United States says a Kansas high school was justified in suspending a 16-year-old student for speaking Spanish with another student in the hallway.
Junior Zach Rubio…

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Students Punished for Handing Out Anti-Bush Flyers

by Jim Brown December 15, 2005

A Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) spokesman says the group is concerned about Hampton University's commitment to free expression. In November, police officers at the Virginia school confronted seven students who were passing out flyers protesting President Bush's…

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Pro-family Law Center to Help Parents’ Fight School Library Porn

by Jim Brown November 28, 2005

A pro-family law firm is getting ready to sue the Fayetteville (Arkansas) School Board over pornographic books in the district's school libraries. A group of local parents is asking that children's access to several sexually explicit books in the city's…

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Pope Visits a Catholic University and Calls for Faithfulness to the Magisterium

by CE Editors November 28, 2005

Last week, Pope Benedict XVI visited Rome's Sacred Heart Catholic University, for the occasion of the inauguration of the academic year.
The day began in the university, prior to the Pope's arrival, with a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Camillo Ruini,…

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Abstinence Includes Sexual Activity Says Maryland Middle School

by Hilary White November 26, 2005

The Maryland Gazette reported Thursday that the eighth-grade health class at Herbert Hoover Middle School identifies two types of sexual intercourse as “abstinence.”
It would seem that even after decades of sex education, saturation of sexual imagery in the media…

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DOJ Warns Illinois School Against Race-Based Hiring Practices

by Jim Brown November 25, 2005

The US Department of Justice has threatened to sue Southern Illinois University — Carbondale over racially exclusive programs at the school. The DOJ has notified the school that hiring practices for its three graduate fellowships intentionally discriminate against whites, Asian…

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Attorney Applauds Restoration of Religious Holidays to School Calendar

by Jim Brown November 16, 2005

A Christian attorney is praising a decision by a Florida school board to once again recognize religious holidays on the district's school calendar.
The Hillsborough County School Board had decided to eliminate all religious holiday vacation days after Muslims in…

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State-Sponsored Narnia Contest Causing a Stir in Florida

by Jim Brown November 11, 2005

A religious freedom group is offering pro bono legal representation to any Florida school that is threatened with a lawsuit for taking part in a state reading contest that features a book in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia series.
As…

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