Since the beginning of his administration, President Joe Biden has asked Congress for $100 million to help schools become more integrated by race and family income. The proposal never received serious consideration from Congressional Republicans. But the Department of Education didn’t give up and won approval from lawmakers to apply a far more modest amount of […]
France has banned physical expression of religion in schools for almost 20 years, but the abaya — a loosefitting robe worn by some Muslim women — was in a gray area.
France will ban schoolchildren from wearing abayas ahead of the upcoming academic year, the government has said, the latest in a series of contentious restrictions in the country on clothing associated with Muslims.
France has banned physical expression of religion in schools for almost 20 years, but the abaya — a loosefitting robe worn by some Muslim women — was in a gray area.