Janet Murguia is the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States.

Ira Mehlman is media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. FAIR advocates for changes in immigration law that would reduce the number of immigrants allowed to enter the United States. Mehlman contends that Jews could face increased anti-Semitism if more immigrants are allowed into the U.S. Contact Mehlman through FAIR press secretary Cassie Williams.

Shari Rendall is director of legislation and public policy for Concerned Women for America, a conservative group that aims to bring biblical principles to all levels of public policy.

Phyllis Schlafly is the founder of Eagle Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based conservative grassroots organization involved in the public school textbook controversy from the conservative Christian side.

Joseph Conn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State wrote a critical review of the student text “The Bible and Its Influence.”

Read an April 2006 Washington Monthly profile of Randy Brinson, one of the primary advocates of “The Bible and Its Influence.”

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life offers resources on issues involving religion and public schools.

The U.S. Department of Education has guidelines, issued in 1998, for teaching religion in public schools.

Marshall Fitz is the director of immigration policy for the Center for American Progress (CAP), which is a progressive independent nonpartisan educational institute. Contact Fitz through the CAP communications director Crystal Patterson or through the email form on his CAP page.