Howard County School Board to address religious observance policy

Several Muslims in Howard County have told the School Board they want to leave school for prayer, but a proposed policy would permit prayer at schools.

“If they leave class at 1:45 p.m. on Friday, by the time they would return at 2:15 p.m., the class would be over,” Irfan Malik, president of the Howard County Muslim Council, said Tuesday in an interview with The Examiner.