GREENVILLE, Va. (AP) – During a forum, parents expressed concern over a world geography lesson at Riverheads High School that involved Islam. News outlets report teacher Cheryl LaPorte had students ...

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Parents erupt over homework assignment asking students to write a phrase in Arabic saying "There is no God but Allah " Backlash over a homework assignment on Islam at a Virginia school led officials ...

A Virginia school district is defending a classroom assignment that required students to practice calligraphy by writing the Muslim statement of faith, “There is no god but Allah. Muhammad is the ...

GREENVILLE, Va. -- Extra-curricular activities have been cancelled tonight and schools will be closed Friday in a western Virginia school district after the district received "voluminous phone calls ...

ALEXANDRIA -- “If you do something unusual, you can find your people,” said calligrapher/henna artist Catherine Lent of Frenchtown to Delaware Valley High School students and staffers. She was this ...

All public schools in a Virginia county were closed Friday. This came after a world geography teacher at one local high school gave a controversial homework assignment that required students to copy ...

About 900 children took part in a new year calligraphy event in Nara Prefecture, western Japan. Elementary and junior high ...

VERONA, Va. — Schools in a Shenandoah Valley county in Virginia were closed Friday and a weekend holiday concert and athletic events were canceled amid an angry backlash about a school lesson ...

This article first appeared on The Daily Signal. A local dispute over a high school homework assignment made national headlines last week when parents in Virginia complained that a teacher was ...

Late last week, a high-school teacher in central Virginia gave her students a lesson in Arabic calligraphy. Over the following six days, schools in Augusta County were inundated with outraged phone ...

The assignment on world religions that was handed out to students at Riverheads High School in rural Virginia seemed pretty simple, on its face. A teacher’s printout explained why calligraphy was ...