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30 Jul 12:05 am
In Minneapolis (MN) yesterday, the Tarek ibn Ziyad
Academy, a charter school being sued for promoting Islam, filed a counterclaim against the ACLU. Last week, a federal district court upheld the
ACLU's standing to bring an Establishment Clause claim against the school. (See prior posting.) Now, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, TiZA
claims that the ACLU has injured its reputation by calling it "theocratic ...
22 Jul 12:20 am
In American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota v. Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, (D MN, July 21, 2009), a Minnesota federal district court held that plaintiff has taxpayer standing
to challenge as an Establishment Clause violation the funding of a charter school by the state of Minnesota. Plaintiff alleges that the Tarek
ibn Ziyad Academy advances the Muslim religion and fosters
entanglement between government and religion. The court rejected defendants' argument ...
21 Jan 11:00 pm
ACLU of Minnesota announced yesterday that it has filed a federal lawsuit against Tarek ibn
Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a publicly-funded cultural identity charter school operating in the Twin Cities
area. The complaint in ACLU of Minnesota v. Tarek Ibn Aiyad Academy, (D MN, filed 1/21/2009) alleges that the funding and operation of TIZA violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution and of the
Minnesota Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 16), ...
23 Jul 12:25 am
... That permitted Ellison to withhold disclosure of amounts involved. The Muslim American Society is connected with the controversial Minneapolis area charter school, the
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy. In 2006 and 2007, MAS received rental payments for the building that housed the Academy. Those payments
came from state funds. The House Ethics Committee is now reviewing its decision on how the trip was reported. Meanwhile, according to the ...
13 Mar, 2008 11:06 pm
Columnist Katherine Kersten in last Sunday's Minneapolis Star Tribune discusses a cultural identity publicly-funded charter school operating in Minnesota's Twin Cities area. The
Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA) enrolls around 300 children in grades K-8. The school has a waiting list of 1500, and last fall it opened a second campus. Most enrollees are
children of Muslim immigrant families. The school says that it focuses on "traditions, histories, civilizations ...
10 Sep, 2008 1:56 pm
The Minneapolis Star Tribune includes a column on the latest developments in the controversy surrounding Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), a K-8 charter school that has been accused of
promoting Islam and that is therefore being monitored by the Minnesota...
11 Sep, 2008 6:00 am
Yesterday's Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that tension continues to exist between the Minnesota Department of Education and the Tarek
ibn Ziyad Academy (TiZA), a K-8 charter school. The state
continues to be concerned that TiZA has stepped over the church-state line. The school's executive director is an imam, it shares a building with a mosque and the Minnesota chapter of
the Muslim American ...
30 Jan 1:05 pm
In the final days of his administration, former President George W. Bush issued a report on why our country needs more charter schools. The document even suggested ways that schools
might circumvent the constitutional ban of school-sponsored religion. That's a recipe for controversy, of course. And Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy (TIZA), a charter school in Minnesota, [...]
22 Jul 6:07 am
The opinion is ACLU of Minnesota v. Tarek ibn Ziyad
Academy, filed yesterday. Most of it deals with whether the ACLU's members have "taxpayer standing" to challenge the allegedly
Establishment-Clause-violating...
30 Aug 4:05 am
Yesterday's Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that, in its latest encounter with the Tarek ibn
Ziyad Academy, the Minnesota Department of Education is investigating whether the charter school
improperly used state funds to subsidize mosques on its two campuses. TiZA has received a total of $2.23 million since 2003 under the state's lease aid program that is designed to help
state charter schools rent ...
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