Earlier this week, the president of Universal Society of Hinduism issued a statement urging Arizona schools which have a “significant number of Hindu pupils” to include the Hindu holy day Diwali when putting together their calendars.
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We talked with Linell Cady, a religious studies professor at Arizona State University, about how districts across the country have had to reassess their school holidays as religious demographics change.
