Christian Student Teachers at Center of Lawsuit Against Arizona School District

A student is seen in a classroom in Nevitt Elementary School, in Phoenix, Arizona, on Oct. 26, 2022. Olivier Touron/AFP via Getty Images

An Arizona school board is facing a lawsuit after it severed a long-standing partnership with a Christian university that supplied student teachers over their religious beliefs.

Conservative group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed the lawsuit against Washington Elementary School District on Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona.