Green Local Schools, Green, Ohio, has instructed administrative staff that prayers will not be permitted at future school-sponsored events. An honors banquet, spring banquet and the senior awards night at …
Legal Advocacy Victories
FFRF letter downs cross collection (July 2, 2015)
Gregg County Clerk Connie Wade, Longview, Texas, removed a collection of more than 20 crosses from her county office after getting a July 2 letter from FFRF Senior Staff Attorney …
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Junior ROTC balls to end prayer (June 29, 2015)
Bethel High School’s Naval Junior Reserve Officer’s Training Corps in Bethel, Conn., has taken several steps to keep religion out of its instruction. A concerned student reported to FFRF that …
Driving video ‘infested’ with religion (June 26, 2015)
Bartram Trail High School in St. Johns, Fla., will stop illegal athletic prayer and will no longer show a religious video to students. A student reported to FFRF that the …
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FFRF breaks up church-city event (June 24, 2015)
FFRF’s complaint letter made the city of Casselberry, Fla., cancel a planned partnership with an evangelical Christian church. Camp Casselberry, a city-run youth program, was scheduled to partner with Church …
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New Jersey schools ends sponsorship of baccalaureate (June 23, 2015)
Woodstown-Pilesgrove Regional School District in New Jersey is taking steps to end its sponsorship of an annual baccalaureate ceremony after it received a June 23 letter from Staff Attorney Madeline …
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Teacher’s bible quotes erased in class (June 18, 2015)
Pender County Schools in North Carolina will put a stop to the classroom display of bible quotes. A Topsail Middle School teacher in Hampstead wrote bible quotes on a dry-erase …
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Calif. schools agree complaints valid (June 16, 2015)
Two California school districts have promised to take steps to ensure teachers will not use district resources to promote religious events after getting letters from FFRF.A teacher at Modesto City …
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Christian film nixed at middle school (June 15, 2015)
Nevada’s Clark County School District will update its teacher handbook and reinstruct teachers not to promote their own sectarian beliefs to students. On May 21, a teacher at Victoria Fertitta …
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