{"id":68632,"date":"2018-02-28T12:02:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68632"},"modified":"2018-02-27T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T23:04:57","slug":"rns-battle-over-religion-in-public-schools-waged-in-one-of-americas-fastest-growing-cities-mckinney-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68632","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America\u2019s fastest-growing cities&#8211;Mckinney, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public school officials in one of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing cities are being accused of violating the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy has been simmering in this once-tiny cotton-farming community, about 30 miles north of Dallas, since last summer when Rick McDaniel, superintendent of the McKinney Independent School District, prayed at a pulpit adorned with a Christian cross \u2014 during a mandatory school employee meeting at a church.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, under pressure from concerned parents, the 24,500-student school district decided to end a decade-plus practice of conducting high school commencement ceremonies at the same church, Prestonwood Baptist, a Southern Baptist megachurch in nearby Plano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2018\/02\/26\/battle-religion-public-schools-waged-one-americas-fastest-growing-cities\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public school officials in one of the nation\u2019s fastest-growing cities are being accused of violating the separation of church and state. The controversy has been simmering in this once-tiny cotton-farming community, about 30 miles north of Dallas, since last summer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=68632\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,114,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-law-legal-issues","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68634,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68632\/revisions\/68634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}