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Colorado School District Settles With Teacher Who Claimed Discrimination

July 31, 2015

A southern Colorado school district accused of promoting evangelical Christian ideals has reached a settlement with a teacher who filed a lawsuit claiming religious discrimination.

Robert Basevitz, who is Jewish, filed a suit in May saying that the Fremont RE-2 School District endorsed religion by allowing a church to operate in Florence High School for Sunday services, morning prayer and Bible study and pizza during lunch in a classroom.

The Denver Post reported that as part of the settlement the district has agreed to implement a district-wide ban on prayers at school-sponsored events, to no longer allow the Cowboy Church at Crossroads to use the district facilities and to enforce a policy requiring student-led religious groups to be employee-free.

lawsuitBazevitz’s attorney Paul Maxon says neither party admitted wrongdoing in the settlement.

Topics Education Colorado

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  • August 4, 2015 at 1:51 pm
    Hmmmm says:
    If the school was renting out their facility on a Sunday -- how is that promoting the church. They are renting out their property one day a week -- it is not a school functi... read more
  • July 31, 2015 at 4:21 pm
    Rosenblatt says:
    2nd paragraph: "Robert Basevitz, who is Jewish"
  • July 31, 2015 at 3:39 pm
    jim h says:
    In recent years it has not illegal to hold church in a public building and there are numberous court cases to prove it (in favor of school systems). Talk about reverse descri... read more

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