The Texas State Board of Education on Friday gave final approval to establishing a Bible elective for high schools but left specific class guidelines up to local school districts. Board members voted 10-5 to adopt broad standards for the Bible class.
16Nearly one in four public high school students in California dropped out in the 2006-07 school year, according to figures released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.
10A high school senior from Georgia won the National Right to Life oratory competition this past weekend, emphasizing in his speech how abortion “is but a branch to the Post Modernist root.”
1Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity.
12A Muslim student who sued because his public high school graduation ceremony was held in a Baptist church has received an apology from Newark's school district and assurances that it will not hold future events in houses of worship.
28The American Civil Liberties Union has told a school district it will take legal action if administrators don't stop a group from handing out Bibles to students during class time.
23Public school students in Tennessee may soon have the option of taking non-denominational, elective courses on the Bible.
13A group of Southern Baptists are lining up behind a resolution condemning the California school system for what they claim is a recent tolerance campaign that blatantly endorses homosexuality.
56The Florida Senate voted 21-17 Wednesday, following a strong majority vote in the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee, to submit the Evolution Academic Freedom Act for vote in the House.
126A high school student won't be allowed to proceed with a lawsuit against his school district for instituting a policy that barred him from expressing his opposition to homosexuality, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
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