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Oregon lawmakers may repeal ban on teachers' classroom religious garb: A law from an anti-Catholic era

Teachers in Oregon are likely to win the right to wear religious clothing such as turbans, yarmulkes and headscarves in public schools when state lawmakers convene in February, elected officials say.

Oregon’s relatively unusual prohibition on teachers’ religious garb dates to a shameful anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic period in state history and is overdue to be changed, said state House Speaker Dave Hunt.