A student in Mississippi reached out to the AHA with videos of religious assemblies at her school. After their district refused to change their policies, we took action. The video below contains clips documenting the overtly sectarian nature of these assemblies.
The AHA continues to fight for the separation of church and state.
For more information on this story, you can read our release from when the suit was filed back earlier this year: http://americanhumanist.org/news/details/2013-04-humanists-object-to-christian-assembly-at-public-sch
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The National Coalition for Public Education, which the AHA is an active member of, applauds a recent poll from PDK/Gallup which demonstrates that 70% of Americans oppose tax-payer funded private school vouchers.
Read the full press release from the NCPE here.
via Think Progress: "A West Virginia high school student is filing an injunction against her principal, who she claims is threatening to punish her for speaking out against a factually inaccurate abstinence assembly at her school. Katelyn Campbell, who is the student body vice president at George Washington High School, alleges her principal threatened to call the college where she’s been accepted to report that she has “bad character.” “