After 66 years and some location changes, a painting of Jesus that used to hang in the Jackson City school district has been removed. The painting had recently come under fire after the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation received a letter in January complaining about the painting’s presence in the school. The Foundation then sent the district a letter, [...]
A painting of Jesus that has recently come under fire for promoting one religion over others inside a public school has been moved – into another school building. Officials at the Jackson City School District moved the painting of Jesus from the middle school to the high school. They say the painting was a gift [...]
The ACLU of Ohio and the Freedom from Religion Foundation have filed a lawsuit against the Jackson City school district over a depiction of Jesus that hangs in a district middle school. But in an effort to keep the painting, the district passed a policy at its last board meeting declaring some parts of the [...]
Last month a rural Ohio school found itself suddenly in the spotlight after the Freedom From Religion Foundation asked the district to remove a depiction of Jesus hanging in one of its schools. Since that letter was sent, the ACLU of Ohio has joined the debate, and the two organizations have now filed a lawsuit [...]
An atheist group is threatening to sue Jackson City School District in southeastern Ohio over a large painting of Jesus displayed in a hallway at Jackson Middle School. In a letter, published by WBEX here, the Freedom from Religion Foundation tells the district’s superintendent that “it is illegal for Jackson Middle School to post religious [...]
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