• Update to the PLANS Lawsuit page the PLANS appeal brief, the Defendant school districts' response brief and the PLANS reply.

• Extensive additions to the Studies page including links to: article by Stephen Sagarin comparing Steiner and Piaget (Autumn 2005), U.K report on Steiner Schools in England (June 2005), and two medical research articles on the reduced incidence of allergies in Steiner school children (May 2005 and January 2006).

• Congratulations to Waldorf Olympians!

• Corrections and updates to several other pages including our list of Waldorf methods charter schools, our Waldorf Links page, and our list of mailing list resources.

21 June 2006

• Waldorf Answers web site exceeds 150,000 visitors since April 2004.

5 February 2006

• Added a number of earlier documents to the PLANS Lawsuit page

5 November 2005

• Update of PLANS trial: PLANS issues a notice of appeal from the district court final judgment to the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal (November 3).

22 October 2005

• Update of PLANS trial outcome: PLANS files opposition to motion for judgment (September 23), Judge Damrell grants the motion for judgment (September 28), defendant school districts file accounting of their costs (October 19).

• Waldorf Answers web site exceeds 100,000 visitors since April 2004.

22 September 2005

• Announcing Americans for Waldorf Education - a group of current and past Waldorf parents and teachers with a new web site, providing the facts about Waldorf education "in a fair, balanced and truthful presentation". Contains a major section on PLANS Inc.

21 September 2005

• New comprehensive Waldorf Links page
• News of PLANS trial updated and moved to Americans for Waldorf Education site

16 September 2005

• Defendants file objections to Plaintiff exhibit and motion for final judgment that anthroposophy is not a religion and all other issues in the case are disposed under Rule 52(c).

• An analysis of the PLANS press release: "PLANS Loses Waldorf Court Case, Lies About it in Press Release" by Daniel Hindes

15 September 2005

• Transcript of the trial record from September 12

• PLANS announces that they will appeal the trial outcome: "PLANS was unable to put on its case because of the court's evidentiary rulings, which we believe to be both erroneous and prejudicial."

• Press release from Anthroposophical Society in America comments on the trial and the failure of PLANS "to prove that anthroposophy is a religion for establishment clause purposes"

13 September 2005

• The PLANS trial concludes after 30 minutes:

Monday, September 12, 2005: According to a court observer, "In a full, free and fair trial lasting 30 minutes, the Plaintiff PLANS Inc failed to provide any admissable evidence that anthroposophy is a religion for Establishment Clause purposes." A motion by the Defendants is being drawn up and a ruling from the Court is expected after Sept 29.

11 September 2005

• Applying Waldorf Methods in U.S. Public Schools including "What are Waldorf methods?" and a list of 30 U.S. public Waldorf-methods schools

5 September 2005 

• Defendants' objections to 112 Plaintiff exhibits in the lawsuit (September 1, 2005)

3 September 2005

• Trial briefs for Plaintiff and Defendants in the lawsuit (August 29, 2005)
• Article Waldorf High School - Upper School by Betty Staley [60K]
• Abstract of research report Bullying and the Steiner school ethos by Ian Rivers and Alison Soutter (1996). The study "looks at three classes of 30 pupils in one [Waldorf] school in the South of England, and finds a very low level of bullying despite the fact that many pupils came to the school because they had been victimized elsewhere."

30 June 2005

• New study on Waldorf high school graduates (April 2005). "This project has involved a year-long study gathering data from high schools on their graduates over the last ten years. In overview, we can report that Waldorf graduates are being accepted by and attending not only the finest universities and colleges in North America but around the world. A complete breakdown of matriculation is included. We have also noted those institutions which particularly attract Waldorf students."

• Link to an article in The Guardian, "How Steiner schools are run" highlighted at our home page.