Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute
24th January, 2011
Citizens Project is proud to present the second annual Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute, a one day seminar on how the First Amendment to the US Constitution protects religious freedom in public schools. For teachers, students, parents, administrators, staff, school board members, and open to the public.
Saturday March 12, 2011
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Participants will learn:
- How the law defines religious freedom in the public school setting,
- Best practices for respecting all students’ religious freedom, and
- How to be an advocate for religious freedom in your school.
In-service credit for teachers and graduate credit is available. Lunch, textbook and supplemental materials are provided to all participants.
To receive information about the Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute, join our email list for Freedom Watch Online, email Kristy Milligan, or call us at (719) 520-9899.
Click here to download the flier for educators.
Click here to download the flier for parents, students and the public.
Click here for the REGISTRATION FORM.
Click here to download the 2010 Citizens Religious Freedom Toolkit.
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Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute
2nd April, 2010
| April 17, 2010 |
Citizens Project is proud to present the first Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute, a one day seminar on how the First Amendment to the US Constitution protects religious freedom in public schools. For teachers, students, parents, administrators, staff, school board members, and open to the public.
Saturday April 17, 2010
To be repeated on Sunday April 18 pending sufficient enrollment
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Participants will learn:
- How the law defines religious freedom in the public school setting,
- Best practices for respecting all students’ religious freedom, and
- How to be an advocate for religious freedom in your school.
May provide in-service credit for teachers. Please check back for details.
To receive information about the Citizens’ Religious Freedom Institute, join our email list for Freedom Watch Online, email Barb Van Hoy, or call us at (719) 520-9899.
Click here to download the flier for educators.
Click here to download the flier for parents, students and the public.
Click here for the REGISTRATION FORM.
Click here to download the Citizens Religious Freedom Toolkit.
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Texas Board of Education re-writes history
19th March, 2010
Educators, historians, journalists and commentators all over the country are decrying the decision by the Texas Board of Education to approve highly politicized revisions to public school curriculum.
Thanks to the Texas Freedom Network for this round-up:
A San Francisco Chronicle columnist sharply criticizes the State Board of Education’s rewriting of Texas social studies standards.
Historians on Tuesday criticized proposed revisions to the Texas social studies curriculum, saying that many of the changes are historically inaccurate and that they would affect textbooks and classrooms far beyond the state’s borders.
The San Antonio Express-News says the “latest example of SBOE incompetence springs from the same source as other outrages: The inability of social conservatives on the state board to distinguish between ideology and education.”
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, director of the U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project at the University of Texas School of Journalism, says the Texas State Board of Education apparently wasn’t listening as witnesses came from across the state to urge members to consider the inclusion of more Hispanic Americans in social studies curriculum standards.
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have now, in their characteristic ways, weighed in on the Texas State Board of Education.
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