Tahvia Shaw

Tahvia Shaw is the principal of Terrace Community Middle School in Thonotosassa, Fla. The school was the first in its district to make Eid al-Fitr a school holiday. The school is in Hillsborough County, which eliminated all religious holidays, except Christmas, after it added Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur as holidays and then received requests from Muslim groups […]

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Rochelle Eisenberg

Rochelle Eisenberg is an attorney who specializes in education law and has represented superintendents and school boards across the state of Maryland. She can discuss what it would take to close Maryland schools for Eid al-Fitr.

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Jay Wexler

Jay Wexler is a law professor at Boston University who specializes in First Amendment issues, including religious expression in public schools and the public square. He speaks on church-state and other constitutional issues across the U.S. and internationally.

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J. Richard Ratcliffe

J. Richard Ratcliffe is a lawyer in Providence, R.I. As a speaker for the Center for First Amendment Rights in Hartford, Conn., he frequently talks with high school, college and professional groups about the First Amendment.

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Jay McIntire

Jay McIntire is the school superintendent of the Brewer School Department in Maine, which has about 800 students. He approved the use of a “wellness room” in one of his former school district’s public schools as a place where students and staff could go to reduce stress. Parents and others raised concerns that meditation, prayer or another […]

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Mongi Dhaouadi

Mongi Dhaouadi is the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ Connecticut chapter. He can discuss accommodation of Muslim students in Bridgeport, Conn., schools, which assigned a room for Muslim students during lunches at Ramadan.

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