December 7, 2007
After Lawsuit by Mormon Student, West Virginia Revises Scholarship Rules to Allow Religious Leave
State education officials in West Virginia reinstated a Mormon student's merit-based scholarship on Thursday, five months after the student filed a lawsuit alleging that they had violated his First Amendment rights. The officials have also proposed numerous changes in the terms of the state-financed "Promise" scholarship to make it more accommodating to students' needs.
David I. Haws, now a sophomore at West Virginia University, left the institution for two years, beginning in
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