Two moms in Mercer County, West Virginia, have sued a public school district for offering a voluntary Bible course for elementary and middle school students. The school district has offered Bible classes for over 75 years, according to the nonprofit Freedom From Religion Foundation, a church/state “watchdog” based in Madison, Wisconsin. Atheist parent “Jane Doe” and her kindergarten child …
A West Virginia school district is fighting back against the claim that a Bible study class offered in some public schools violates the First Amendment. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed a lawsuit last month against the Mercer County, West Virginia Board of Education, Mercer County Schools and Superintendent Dr. Deborah Akers, seeking to end the county’s Bible In The …
A new lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation claims a longstanding public school program in Mercer County, West Virginia, violates separation of church and state provisions of the federal and state constitutions. Mercer’s “Bible in Schools” program offers weekly instruction in the Bible during the school day to elementary and middle school students. The …
A federal judge on Friday removed the NCAA as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by former UNC-Chapel Hill athletes who said their educations were harmed by the bogus class scandal in the African studies department. U.S. District Judge Loretta C. Biggs ruled that the attorneys representing former football player Devon Ramsay and former women’s basketball player Rashanda McCants had failed to state …
Jennie Lissarrague Updated: 05/05/2016 1:09 PM Created: 05/05/2016 10:43 AM A former special education teacher has filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale School District claiming she lost her job because she reported that she had too many students in her classes, which is a violation of state law. According to the lawsuit, Janna Todd was hired as a special …