Female teacher and students praying before taking lunch in a kindergarten The start of a new school year always brings change. For students, it’s new classmates, new teachers and new lessons. For ...
WEBSTER, Louisiana -- Just like any other school, students at Lakeside High School in Webster, Louisiana, start their day out with the pledge of allegiance. But it's what they did afterward that makes ...
HAMMOND (AP) – A woman who says she was punished for speaking out against classroom prayer and preaching with a grade of F in student teaching was offered the court settlement reached this week even ...
I TURNED 40 recently. That makes me old enough to remember school prayer. Mandatory school prayer was a spotty thing around the United States in the late 1950s and ’60s. It was very prevalent in the ...
Bossier Parish first-grade teacher Kelli Aiello told parents in an email earlier this month that "the Lord has laid this on my heart" — "this" being to pray in the classroom with students whose ...
Not long ago, prayer in school seemed like an issue already put to rest by the courts. But a suburban Atlanta teacher’s refusal last week to observe a new state law requiring a brief period of “quiet ...
The most enduring and controversial issue related to school-sponsored religious activities is classroom prayer. In Engel v.Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court held that the Establishment Clause ...