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Prison Fellowship's contract with the prison ends on June 30, 2008, and state officials say they will be taking bids from other organizations for a "values based" program.

Quote of the day
"[It] has the whiff of ethnic cleansing."

— From a resolution approved by the city council of Buffalo, New York, protesting the local Catholic diocese's decision to close and merge several city parishes. After widespread criticism, including an editorial in The Buffalo News, several lawmakers said they'll demand changes to the resolution. But council president David A. Franczyk, who drafted the bill, stands by his wording.

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Education :

• Appeals panel splits three ways on church-state suit | The city's policy of barring churches from holding Sunday services in public schools could provide the U.S. Supreme Court with its next big "establishment clause" case, given the fractured judgment rendered by a federal appellate court in Manhattan yesterday (The New York Sun)
  
  
• Muslim prayers in school debated | S.D. elementary at center of dispute (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Pair of fledgling Christian schools scramble for fall | Two Christian groups are starting small high schools from scratch in south St. Louis County, offering no-frills educations based around the Bible and tuitions that are lower than most larger private schools (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  
• Parents won appeal against mandatory religious education | The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that mandatory religious classes (KRL) in Norwegian public schools violate Article 2 of the European human rights convention (Norway Post)
  
  
• Also: Parents won fight against mandatory religious class | Parents who sued the Norwegian state 10 years ago over mandatory religious classes in public schools could finally claim victory on Friday. The European Court of Human Rights narrowly ruled in their favour (Aftenposten, Norway)
  
  
• Chastity ring sparks British teenage sex debate | A high court battle between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to make sex education effective (Reuters)
  
  
• School bans anti-abortion T-shirt | A teenage mother has been banned from wearing an anti-abortion T-shirt to her secondary school in Aberdeenshire (BBC)
  
  
• Bishop rejects MLC's call to end school religious instruction | A call by Greens MLC John Kaye to end religious instruction in public schools has met with a firm rebuttal from Catholic Bishop Julian Porteous (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
  
  
• Court's ruling won't limit Christian hate speech | The Christian Right is concerned that yesterday's Supreme Court decision on student speech will restrict high-schoolers' ability to spread anti-gay messages. But they've got nothing to worry about (Sarah Posner, The American Prospect)
  
  

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