Hardly anyone seems to want a school voucher system in New Jersey, but an opportunity scholarship plan continues to have life. Sharon Krengel of the Education Law Center explains: Strong pushback against vouchers last winter from public school parents and advocates...
Via Religion Clause, the EEOC has announced a lawsuit in Florida challenging a nursing home's refusal to continue accommodating a Seventh-Day Adventist's Sabbath requirements. A new policy at the Menorah House requires all employees to work on Saturdays....
A dispute that seemed sure to boil over in controversy instead went out with a whimper as the Texas Education Board agreed to a new set of supplementary materials for the Biology curriculum. Many watchers expected more of a fight for material that questioned evolution...
In a town hall meeting this morning at the University of Maryland, President Obama was asked about the issue of religious hiring discrimination by tax-funded organizations. Since his election – and despite what seemed to be a clear statement during the campaign...
When last we heard from the Texas Board of Education they were overhauling the Social Studies curriculum, a painful-to-watch process that included efforts to diminish the role of Thomas Jefferson in America's founding, and to question the constitutional doctrine...
