Cert. Filed In Idaho Charter School Board Ban On Religious Texts In Classrooms

Alliance Defense Fund announced yesterday that it has filed a petition for certiorari (full text) with the Supreme Court in Napa Classical Academy v. Goesling. In the case, the 9th Circuit upheld the action of the Idaho Public Charter School Commission in barring publicly funded schools from using relgioius texts in the classroom, even for teaching of secular subjects.  The 9th Circuit held that the First Amendment’s speech clause does not give charter school teachers, students, or parents a right to have such texts included as part of the school curriculum. (See prior posting.)