An Ohio school district will no longer be closed for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The district outside Cincinnati said a threatened lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union had no bearing on its decision to ban the two- year experiment, which was launched because of high absentee rates on those days.
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