school district

Can a teacher put John 3:16 in email signature? District says no; her lawyers say yes

By Adelle M. Banks — April 10, 2023
(RNS) — An official of a Virginia school district said its ‘determination is not based on any particular religious viewpoint.’

After harassment of Sikh bus driver, Maryland school district agrees to awareness training

By Aysha Khan — May 29, 2019
(RNS) — Since he began working as a school bus driver in suburban Maryland more than a decade ago, Sawinder Singh’s colleagues, supervisors and students taunted him because of his religion and ethnicity.

Georgia school district repudiates baptisms on football field

By Reuters — September 15, 2015
ATLANTA (Reuters) Carroll County schools' assistant superintendent said in a statement on that the baptisms violated school district policy and that the district did not know the ceremony was scheduled to be held at the high school.

A pagan holiday? NJ school district cancels, reinstates Halloween celebrations

By Jessica Mazzola — October 16, 2014
MAPLEWOOD, N.J. (RNS) Parents of students at the Seth Boyden Elementary School in Maplewood received a note home from the principal saying that the annual Halloween celebration would be canceled. The following day it was reinstated.
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