Weekday Religious Education
Weekday Religious Education (WRE) or Released Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI) is a released time Christian education programLithwick, DahliaBible Belt Upside the Head ''Slate (magazine), Slate'', February 16, 2005. Accessed July 27, 2006.Palmetto Family CouncilReleased Time Education Accessed July 27, 2006. for Public school (government funded), public school students in the United States. The program is administered during school hours, but by lawMcCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948)
Retrieved from FindLaw, July 27, 2006. must be conducted outside school property. Weekday Religious Education classes are offered in school districts in several U.S. state, states, most of them rural.

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Released Time
In the United States public school system, released time or release time is time set aside during school hours, typically an hour a day or a week, for students to receive off-campus private religious education. There were challenges, but the concept was upheld and a defined implementation resulted, blocking hostility to religious instruction for these students whose parents approved, permitting accommodation yet precluded public funding. Early history The original idea of released time in the United States was first discussed in 1905 at a school conference in New York City. The proposal was that public elementary schools should be closed one day a week, in addition to Sunday, so that parents could have their children receive religious instruction outside the school premises. This idea was later implemented by Dr. William Albert Wirt, an educator and superintendent of the school district of Gary, Indiana, in 1914. In the first years of Wirt's implementation, over 600 students p ...
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