Portage Northern senior now files federal lawsuit to get graduation moved off religious holiday
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Portage Northern High School senior who claims the district is violating her civil rights because graduation has been ...
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Portage Northern High School senior who claims the district is violating her civil rights because graduation has been scheduled on a Jewish religious holiday has now taken her case to federal court. May 26 is Shavuot the Jewish holiday celebrates when God gave the Torah to the Jewish people, and 18-year-old Minaleah Koffron says Portage Public Schools are violating the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act, the Michigan Constitution, and the U.S. Constitution by not changing the date.