Doug Lederman of Inside Higher Ed reports on the lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation against the U.S. Secretary of Education over its awarding $430,000 in federal funds this year (and over $1 million in the past two years) to a small “Bible-centered” college in rural Alaska, Alaska Christian College. The school, with a scant 37 students, mostly Native Americans from surrounding villages and reservations, has a dual mission: offering the students a bridge to four-year colleges that is otherwise lacking on the reservations, but also instilling evangelical Christian beliefs and preparing its students for mission work. The college offers exclusively religious instruction, but second-year students are able to take general education classes at a nearby secular school, and can graduate with a Certificate of Biblical and General Studies. The Freedom From Religion Foundation has charged that the federal funding of the school violates the establishment clause and is effectively “‘an attempt to proselytize Native Americans and offer them an inferior education at massive taxpayer expense,'” but Lederman writes that the outcome of the case will depend on which of the school’s two missions is found to be central to its existence: spreading the gospel, or encouraging Native Americans to pursue higher education.