AROUND OREGON: Taking ‘Christmas’ out of school program title not a violation, Vale board decides

The Vale School Board disagreed with a parent complaint that school officials violated district policy by leaving the word “Christmas” out of the title of the elementary school performance and not providing for religious songs.  

April Johnson, the mother of a fourth grader at Vale Elementary School, charged in a pair of complaints filed Nov. 13 that Theresa Meiwald, elementary school principal, and Alisha McBride, district superintendent, violated policies related to religion, multiculturalism and recognition…