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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WCMH) — A new religious release program for public school students is entering Marysville schools, and this one emphasizes Satanic studies. The Hellion Academy of Independent ...
An elementary school in Ohio will allow its students to participate in a religious education program offered by The Satanic Temple, a "non-theistic" organization that promotes secularism and is ...
The new off-campus lessons provide an alternative to Bible study that's offered through the religious release program and was prompted by the wishes of local parents, leaders of the Satanic Temple ...
Weekday Religious Education (WRE) or Released Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI) is a released time religious education program [1] [2] for public school students in the United States. The program is administered during school hours, but by law [ 3 ] must be conducted outside school property.
Since 2003, School Ministries has growth annually at an increase of 10% in students served. In 2006, School Ministries lead an effort in South Carolina to allow Released Time for high school credit. This law is now referred to as the Released Time Credit Act. [7] School Ministries followed this up in 2014 in the state of Ohio. [8]
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639 (2002), was a 5–4 decision of the United States Supreme Court that upheld an Ohio program that used school vouchers.The Court decided that the program did not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, as long as parents using the program were allowed to choose among a range of secular and religious schools.
New Albany resident Philip Derrow is a retired business owner. He was a two-term member of the New Albany-Plain Local Board of Education.He is a frequent Columbus Dispatch contributor.
On March 24, 1997, the Supreme Court of Ohio ruled in a 4–3 decision that the state funding system "fails to provide for a thorough and efficient system of common schools," as required by the Ohio Constitution, and directed the state to find a remedy. [2]