There are two seasons that bring with them the threat of law suits against school policies and practices. Christmas is one. Graduation time is the other. Nathan Koppel at the Wall Street Journal reports that many schools face challenges to the practice of holding graduation ceremonies in church buildings. This is not a prayer-at-graduation issue. [...]
On Friday, Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill that allows teachers, coaches and principals in Florida to pray with students. If for some reason you thought that all this was settled with the Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools that was issued during the Clinton administration (2003) you are mistaken. [...]
A judge in Idaho recently ruled that a charter school could not use the Bible in class. But the case is about much more than that. As the recent controversy over the work of the social studies textbook selection committee in Texas makes plain, the issue isn’t just textbooks—as my own students point out, they [...]