POWELL — The Park County School District 1 board is reviewing a policy on religious freedoms to clear up confusions with teachers on how religious observance can be practiced in the schools.

“I believe that there is a little bit of confusion, and for very good reasons — this has been a little bit of a moving target for many years,” Superintendent Jay Curtis said when presenting the policy for first reading at the Nov. 11 meeting. “Court cases ebb and flow, and I believe that the picture has cleared up somewhat legally, and I think that we owe it to our staff to provide some clarity to them in what we should be allowing students to do while they are on the school grounds, at school activities and during school hours.”

As he explained to trustees at the work session a week prior, there hav

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