Action on a bill pending in the State legislature which would require daily Bible reading in California public schools, has been shelved for two years by the Assembly’s Committee on Education.
The committee referred the bill to the State Board of Education for study with instructions to present a report to the Legislature in 1953. The bill had been opposed by the Board of Rabbis of Northern California, the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council, the San Francisco superintendent of schools and teachers’ organizations.
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