KERA News: Interfaith summit meets in Dallas to address 'coordinated' religious push in schools

A coalition of interfaith groups is pushing back on what they say is a “Christian nationalist” school movement – and it’s starting in Texas.

The first ever Religious Freedom in Public Schools summit met in Dallas this week.

Drawing more than 150 people and numerous religious, civic and community organizations from 22 states, the summit was formed by Washington, D.C.-based non-profit Interfaith Alliance. Vice President Guthrie Grave-Fitzsimmons said it chose Texas for the first meeting because the state has already passed laws allowing chaplains as school counselors, sending public dollars to private and religious schools requiring classrooms to display the Ten Commandments in every class — which is facing a legal challenge — and allowing districts to set aside prayer time.

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