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.
WWMT-TV reports that a Kalamazoo County Circuit Court judge granted an emergency motion Wednesday, ordering Portage Public Schools to comply with Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act by rescheduling the graduation date to a “date that is not a Jewish holy day.”
Koffron’s family says the district told them it’s not possible to find a suitable venue with an open date so quickly for spring graduation.
