A reporter for the outlet noted that the mosque adjacent to the school is currently undergoing a $12 million expansion, which will include new classrooms for the school.
They are still raising millions of dollars for the project.
The Islamic Center of Mason Learning Academy boasts on its website that it is “officially affiliated with the State of Ohio Department of Education.”
The webpage links to a digitally scanned letter from the agency saying that the school “meets the compulsory attendance obligation” in the state and would be “registered with the Ohio Department of Education.”
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“Our mission is to help students of all ages, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds to learn how to read the Quran,” the school said.
Students will “build a relationship with the Book of Allah” as well as “learn to read the Quran in the correct way.”
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The founding and growth of the Islamic school comes in the wake of increased Islamic immigration into Ohio.
There are about 100,000 Muslims living in central Ohio, while about 60 percent of them are Somalis, according to a report from WOSU.
* Original Article:
Grade School Affiliated with Ohio Education Department Offers Quran Memorization Classes
