A Jewish children’s author and public school teacher has filed a lawsuit accusing Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit and Lake Orion Community Schools of violating her civil rights and misusing taxpayer dollars by forcing her to teach religion under a state-funded program intended for secular instruction.

The case, brought by Lisa Rose in Oakland County Circuit Court, centers on Michigan’s “shared-time” services program , which allows public school districts to provide non-essential, secular classes — such as art, music, and library science — at private schools. Under the arrangement, Lake Orion hired Rose to teach library classes at Hillel, a Jewish day school in Farmington Hills.

But according to the lawsuit, Hillel treated her not as a public school employee but as a private r

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