Wake County school board to vote on updated religious-based exemption policy

Wake School Board Members Reluctantly Consider Policies on Religious Instruction, ‘Inappropriate’ Books

The school board must create policies to address new state statutes allowing students to participate in religious instruction outside of school and challenges to books and instructional materials.

WCPSS advances policy to let students leave school for religion classes, to comply with state law

A new state law requires school districts to let students take excused absences to leave school for up to four hours a week for religious instruction.

Wake County school board to vote on updated religious-based exemption policy

The updated policy would allow students to sign out of school up to four hours a week for religious instruction and have it count as an excused absence.  Previously, such absences might have been counted as unexcused.