Alpha News journalist Liz Collin reported on Monday that the the Osseo Area Schools district in Minnesota, which serves suburban areas northwest of Minneapolis, plans to construct a new prayer room and foot washing station at one of its high schools.
According to Collin, Osseo Schools confirmed its remodel of Park Senior High School will come with both a prayer room and foot washing stations. The district reportedly told Alpha News the upgrades, “were included in updated plans after hearing from user groups on student needs.”
While the blueprints posted to X by Collin do not specify which religions will be served by the remodel, Collin reported that a tipster told the outlet, “This is undoubtedly for Muslim students only. I cannot understand how this can be happening in this era of no religion in schools.”
🚨NEW: Osseo Schools has confirmed to @AlphaNews that its remodel project at Park Center Senior High includes a prayer room and that foot-washing stations are being added to Osseo Senior High School.
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— Liz Collin (@lizcollin) April 20, 2026
The upgrades were notably confirmed months after Osseo Area Schools recognized Somali Heritage Month last October, when the district wrote in a post to social media, “The Somali-American community is a valuable part of the district’s school communities.”
In addition to the on-campus prayer room and feet washing stations, the district has also notably adopted a policy that allows students to miss up to three hours of classroom instruction each week if a parent or guardian gives students permission to leave campus for religious services.
The reported accommodation comes as two schools in Nashville, Tennessee, are under scrutiny for their own accommodations to Muslim students, beginning with John Overton High School, which allowed around 80 students to sign up for electronic hall passes during Ramadan, enabling them to leave class to pray in a reserved space, that was monitored by a Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) staff member.
Overton High School also saw 10 faculty members sign up to allow their classrooms to be used as “food-free zones” for the duration of the Muslim holy month, and allowed its cafeteria to be used for a religious dinner.
Following that report, the principal at Valor Collegiate Prep, a public charter school in Nashville, reportedly confirmed his school permanently adjusted its bell schedule in order to afford Muslim students to pray during the school day.
After the reports about accommodations at Overton High School surfaced, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti noted, “if the school is dedicating resources to something, that’s a very different situation than if the students are self-organizing.”
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Tom Pappert is a 2025 recipient of the Dao Prize and the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star. He also reports for the Star News Network. Follow Tom on X. Email tips to [email protected].
Image “Prayer Room” by Liz Collin / AlphaNews.
We need to stop accommodating the Islamic cult and those that follow it. It is not a religion, is a political/ cult that looks to take over the world. We’re allowing this enemy within change the rules of our culture and our laws which is totally unfounded. Just look at Europe and how they’re failing because they’ve allowed this.
Someone really need to explain the reason that a prayer every day, or a prayer room is NOT allowed, and a room designed only for Muslim people is leagel, we all know that it is NOT RIGHT.
So, then wehere are the prayer rooms/chapels for the Chrsitian kids who aren’t allowed to pray in class?