Under one theory, the religion clauses (“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”) are complementary, both aiming to ...

A Supreme Court reporter and an education reporter explain faith’s new role in schools. By The Morning Team By Adam Liptak I cover the Supreme Court. In just the last month, the Supreme Court ...

Controversies regarding religion in the classroom in the United States are as old as the public school system itself. Most recently, a Louisiana law mandates that posters of the Ten Commandments ...

Since then, the push to enforce religion-based school requirements has gained renewed traction. "Up until now, the Supreme Court decisions that restrict these kinds of practices in public schools ...