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San Angelo ISD board rejects adopting Senate Bill 11 prayer requirement after community concerns
Summary
After public comment from teachers and community members raising legal and logistical concerns, the San Angelo ISD Board voted 6–0 on Feb. 16 to reject adopting the statutory resolution that would require a daily period of prayer or religious reading on every campus under section 25.0823 of the Education Code.
The San Angelo ISD Board of Trustees voted 6–0 on Feb. 16 to decline adopting the statutory resolution that would require every campus to provide a daily period for prayer or the reading of religious texts as set out in section 25.0823 of the Education Code.
Several members of the public urged the board not to adopt the policy during the public-comment portion of the meeting. Gretchen Smith, a teacher at Glenn Middle School and an elder at Saint Paul Presbyterian Church, said the proposal risked infringing instructional time and imposing religious content: "There are no minutes that we are in our classroom that are not…
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