AFTER MUSLIMS SEEK EQUITY, CHRISMAS STRICKEN FROM SCHOOL CALENDAR

Christmas and Easter have been stricken from next year’s school calendar in Montgomery County. So have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
Montgomery’s Board of Education voted 7 to 1 Tuesday to eliminate references to all religious holidays on the published calendar for 2015-2016, a decision that followed a request from Muslim community leaders to give equal billing to the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha.
In practical terms, Montgomery schools will still be closed for the Christian and Jewish...

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BBC

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IPPmedia

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Why school children in poverty stricken areas find difficult to learn

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Lincoln Journal Star

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Women's Calendar

Women's Calendar
Lincoln Journal Star
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TheCitizen

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The agony of disease-stricken patient in Uswaz

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TheCitizen

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Terror-stricken Burundi refugees see no hope of return

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Africanjam.Com

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TheCitizen

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Lugalo-Gymkhana meet highlights 2015 calendar

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