Ethics

Idaho Says No to Bible as a Textbook at Charter School

By Ed Brayton

The state of Idaho has put the kibosh on a charter school that wanted to use the Bible as a textbook in their school.

The Idaho Public Charter School Commission told the Nampa Classical Academy today it can't use the Bible as a instructional text.

The commission released a memo stating that the Idaho Constitution "expressly" limits use of religious texts. Officials with the new Nampa charter school had planned to use the Bible and other religious texts as a primary source for instruction but not to teach religion.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on August 22, 2009 (boomark / email).