Part of the settlement required the San Diego Unified School District to distribute a policy memo to area superintendents and principals about the 1st Amendment's"limits on the conduct of public school officials as it related to religious activity."
District General Counsel Andra Greene said this memo summarized already existing policies and regulations and incorporated guidance from a state-adopted framework for world history curriculum. “It is and always has been the district’s policy and practice to ensure that children of all faiths, ethnicities and genders are able to learn and thrive in a safe and non-discriminatory manner,” Greene said in an email Tuesday. “When we sat down and had an honest discussion, it became apparent that was the goal of all parties in this case and there was no real dispute.”
The school board voted a year later to make a policy to protect Muslim students from bullying and increase education about Islam. The plan was to work in partnership with CAIR. But six parents and two organizations — Citizens for Quality Education San Diego and San Diego Asian Americans for Equality Foundation —. The Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund , based in Rancho Santa Fe, represented them for free.
The families had sought a preliminary injunction to shut down the district’s efforts but, in September, U.S. District Judge Cynthia Bashant rejected it, saying the families could not prove the district’s program was unconstitutional nor that it favored Islam over other religions.
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