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trotsky

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Thu Mar 28, 2019, 12:42 PM Mar 2019

Six Memphis charter schools agree to morality clause with the Catholic Church in lease

https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/education/2019/03/26/charter-schools-in-memphis-jubilee-catholic-network-lease/3228462002/

Six Memphis public schools set to open in the fall could face legal trouble after agreeing to a morality clause in a two-year lease for classroom space from the Catholic Diocese of Memphis.

The Compass Community Schools network signed a lease agreement that contains a clause agreeing not to teach anything that goes against the teachings of the Catholic Church.

...The clause could also cause a chilling effect on both students and staff and create complications of oversight of a public school by a religious organization, said Charles Haynes, founding director of the Religious Freedom Center..

"A public school is a public school," he said. "It may not in any way be entangled with a religious group that in any way limits what it can and cannot teach. That’s clearly unconstitutional."
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Six Memphis charter schools agree to morality clause with the Catholic Church in lease (Original Post) trotsky Mar 2019 OP
Those charter schools need to find different spaces for their classes MineralMan Mar 2019 #1
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