Liz Hayes
Associate Vice President of Communications
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A group of faith leaders, public-education advocates, and public-school parents – who are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on July 31, 2023, to stop Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding the nation’s first religious public charter school – are seeking to join a similar lawsuit recently filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond.
Americans United and allies – the organizations litigating a lawsuit to stop Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding the nation’s first religious public charter school – applauded the new lawsuit filed by Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond to protect church-state separation and public education in Oklahoma.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State is launching an investigation into how Florida and Oklahoma education officials permitted public schools to incorporate conservative propaganda from PragerU into their curricula.
The staff of Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU) have formed a union, AU Collective, in partnership with Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 500, and AU management has voluntarily recognized the union.
Americans United, the ACLU, the Education Law Center and FFRF – the organizations litigating the lawsuit to stop Oklahoma from sponsoring and funding the nation’s first religious public charter school – denounced the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board for approving a contract with St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser denounced Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for calling a special legislative session to try to strong-arm state legislators into pushing a private school vouchers program on Texas families, even though there is clear bipartisan opposition.
Americans United President and CEO Rachel Laser said the U.S. District Court in South Carolina's "reasoning and application of recent Supreme Court precedent is erroneous" in the ruling against AU’s client Aimee Maddonna, a Catholic mother of three who was rejected by Miracle Hill Ministries, a government-contracted foster care agency in South Carolina, because she’s the ‘wrong’ religion.
Americans United is celebrating an important victory in a Tennessee appellate court that allows Liz and Gabe Rutan-Ram of Knox County to proceed with a lawsuit challenging the state's funding of a foster care agency that denied them services because they are Jewish.
Americans United and allies filed a lawsuit on behalf of 9 Oklahoma residents and a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting public education in Oklahoma to stop the state from sponsoring and funding the nation’s first religious public charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.
The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on July 13 ruled against AU client Shelly Fitzgerald, a beloved guidance counselor at Roncalli High School in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Shelly sued after the school fired her because she was married to a woman. The 7th Circuit ruled that the “ministerial exception” prevented Shelly from vindicating her rights to be free from discrimination.
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