AURORA, Co. — A four-year-old girl in Colorado has been booted from preschool after her mother expressed concern over diversity teaching in the classroom that included books on homosexuality and gender identity. R.B. Sinclair told the Denver Post this week that her daughter’s preschool teacher at Montview Community Preschool and Kindergarten had been reading books to […]
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Over 26,000 people have signed a petition calling upon a Roman Catholic university in California to cancel a “hyper-sexualized drag show,” the fifth of its kind at the Catholic-based educational institution. The University of San Diego is schedule to host its “Celebration of Gender Expression: Supreme Drag Superstar V” on Thursday, […]
DELTA, Co. — A professing atheist group is expressing disappointment as officials with a Colorado school district have deemed some of its literature “inappropriate” that was to be placed in area middle schools. As previously reported, the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF), Western Colorado Atheists and Freethinkers and the Satanic Temple applied to place atheist and satanic-themed […]
BATON ROUGE, La. — A Senate committee in Louisiana has struck down an effort to repeal a law that allows requires equal treatment for biblical Creation and evolution in public schools. The law, known as the “Balanced Treatment for Creation Science and Evolution Science Act,” has been deemed since 1987 as being unenforceable as it was struck down […]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Three first graders in Alaska have been suspended after it was discovered that they had plotted to poison another student with silica packets. Ed Graff, the superintendent of the Anchorage School District, told reporters that two students at Winterberry Charter School who had overheard others talking about the plot reported the matter […]
BERKELEY, Calif. — The student government body at the University of California at Berkeley has unanimously approved a resolution calling upon administrators to open an abortion facility on campus. Student Senator Aanchal Chugh had proposed the idea, stating that the facility is needed as university students are in the age bracket where the most abortions occur. “We […]
DELTA, Co. — A public school district in Colorado has agreed to allow professing atheist and satanic groups to place their materials in area middle and high schools after the organizations took issue with a recent Bible distribution by Gideon International. In December, Gideons made Bibles available for students at public schools in Delta County. That […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Senate has approved a bill authorizing the creation of an elective social studies course on the Bible in public schools. S.B. 278 directs the Kentucky Board of Education to “promulgate administrative regulations” for the course, which may include an elective study on the Hebrew Scriptures or the New Testament, or both. The […]
HOLLISTER, Mo. — Students in a Missouri school district are pushing back after a professing atheist organization recently sent a letter to district officials, demanding that an area youth pastor be prohibited from leading prayers during the lunch period. The Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) had sent a letter last month to Hollister Superintendent Brian […]
CHINO HILLS, Calif. — Hundreds cheered as a California school board voted on Monday on which law firm they would hire to represent them in an appeal against an atheist lawsuit that resulted in a court order that the board stop praying before meetings and speaking about Christianity in their remarks. As previously reported, in […]