By Bobby Ross Jr. | For Religion News Service McKINNEY, Texas — Public school officials in one of the nation’s fastest-growing cities are being accused of violating the separation of church and state. The controversy has been simmering in this once-tiny cotton-farming community, about 30 miles north of Dallas, since last summer when Rick McDaniel, superintendent of the McKinney Independent School District, prayed at a pulpit … Continue reading Battle over religion in public schools waged in one of America’s fastest-growing cities