DALLAS-FORT WORTH, Texas — Before the school year started, teachers in Texas began their typical process of preparing to welcome students back to class. They hung decorations to give their rooms a ...

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

This story was previously published on June 27, 2025, and has been recirculated at the start of the school year. AUSTIN — A new law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in every Texas public ...

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the ...

As a former teacher and mother of six, I have spent years witnessing the downward shift in American classrooms, as they dropped from instilling wisdom to mere knowledge. Schools turned into ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) – Three days before the bill allowing Ten Commandment posters in Texas public schools became law, the principal of Cedar Ridge High School got an email. “Our family would like ...