Since 2006, a coalition of labor, faith, and community groups has organized to ask the New York City Department of Education (DOE) to close schools for two Muslim holidays: Eid al-Adha, celebrated ...

De Blasio said the change means that Muslim families won't be forced to choose between observing the holidays and sending their kids to school. "They want to celebrate their holiday but they also ...

Muslim Americans want schools to recognize Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr as official holidays Some school districts already observe one or both of the holidays Efforts in other areas%2C including ...

When New York City announced in 2015 that it would close its public schools in observance of Islam’s two most sacred holidays, it became the first big-city school district in the U.S. to do so.

Muslim parents, students and civic groups are campaigning to add two of their religious holidays to the New York City public school calendar, pinning their hopes on state lawmakers after failing ...

“We believe that incorporating Muslim school holidays is an educational opportunity,” the executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York said last week. She’s right.

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Worshippers attend the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Amman, Jordan in July 2015. Muslim advocates in the US are appealing to public schools to add Islamic holidays to the calendar.

The interior minister, who is a part of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc, said he was open to the idea to have some regions of Germany recognize Muslim public holidays, Reuters reported.

But as the issue was considered last week, school leaders noted that Islamic holidays will fall on non-school days in 2014. Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, will be celebrated in July.