MHC Educational Curator Regina Wenger shares a portion of her dissertation on Week-Day Church Schools. Week-Day Church Schools, often known as released time education, are when public school students are voluntarily removed from their classrooms for a period of religious instruction. In this excerpt, Regina will focus on the period from the 1940s– 1960s when Protestant Week-Day Church Schools faced several legal challenges emerging out of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic. This was a pivotal period where the religious and political forces supporting Week-Day Church Schools underwent a significant shift.