Students in an upstate public school district are being allowed to sell chocolate crosses, along with Easter bunnies, candy eggs and chicks, after school officials reversed an earlier decision to exclude religious symbols from a fund-raising sale.
Parents had complained that the Lewiston-Porter Central School District, near Buffalo, took concerns about the separation of church and state too far in placing stickers reading "Not Available" over pictures of the crosses in catalogs from which students have been taking orders.
This week, however, the Lewiston-Porter School Board relented, and voted to reverse a ruling and allow the crosses to be sold.