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Education :

• Role as religious mentor may lead to staffer's firing | The possible dismissal of a campus supervisor at Prior Lake High School has some community members accusing the school district of religious discrimination (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
  
  
• Also: High school campus supervisor firing possible | The recommendation to fire a Prior Lake High School campus supervisor was pulled from the School Board agenda Monday evening (Prior Lake American, Minn.)
  
  
• Senior wins fight to stay on team, attend a religious convention | A North Oldham High School senior, who was told by her volleyball coach that she'd have to choose between being on the squad or going to a Christian convention, will be allowed to do both after her parents claimed the ultimatum was religious discrimination (The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)
  
  
• Congregation will continue to worship at school | With a lawsuit looming, Richland officials agreed to allow an Upper Bucks Christian congregation to continue worship services at a local school (The Intelligencer, Horsham, Pa.)
  
  
• Judge upholds constitutionality of vouchers for disabled, foster kids | Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bethany G. Hicks rejected the lawsuit's claim that the voucher programs appropriate public money for private religious schools in violation of the Arizona Constitution (The Arizona Republic)
  
  
• Catholic educational tradition thrives in suburbs | In stark contrast to the struggles of some of their urban counterparts, these suburban Catholic schools are thriving. Some see a familiar pattern (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• School shut over prayers row | Private school's proprietor sends students home, arguing that since the school was sponsored by missionaries from South Korea, no other religion should be practised except Christianity (The Nation, Kenya)
  
  
• Funding faith-based schools: Tory attempts to secure religious minority vote | In an apparent attempt to lure religious minority communities to vote for his party, he is dangling the carrot of funding their private, segregated religious schools (Tarek Fatah and Salma Siddiqui, Toronto Star)
  
  

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Higher education:

• Theological college's head is undermining it, say predecessors | The principal of Wycliffe Hall, the Oxford University Anglican evangelical theological college, was under renewed pressure last night after his three immediate predecessors claimed he was undermining its reputation and threatening its survival as an academic institution (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Dalit Christians plan protest march | The Dalit Christians would organise a march to the Pushpagiri Medical College at Thiruvalla on Friday in support of their demand for reservation in professional educational institutions owned by Christian managements (PTI, India)
  
  

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