School officials in Lake City, Arkansas have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: No prayer, no graduation. On May 6, the school board voted to cancel sixth-grade ...
School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: No prayer, no graduation. On May 6, the school board voted to cancel sixth-grade ...
Student-led graduation messages, which opponents call official school prayer in thin disguise, may continue in Jacksonville, Fla., high schools. The Supreme Court said Monday it will not review a ...
WASHINGTON, Ill. – The class valedictorian was booed and another student was applauded for holding a moment of silence after a judge barred prayer at Washington Community High School's graduation. A ...
An Irmo High School graduate has sued to stop prayers at future graduation ceremonies.Eighteen-year-old Matthew Nielson sued to block prayer, saying the invocation offered at his ceremony amounted to ...
A student-led prayer went on at a central Kentucky high school graduation, despite the opposition of at least six students. Lincoln County High School 2013 Class President Jonathan Hardwick received a ...
It happens every year around this time: a public high school in a small town schedules a graduation prayer in plain violation of the 1992 Supreme Court case prohibiting such prayers, Lee v. Weisman; ...
Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review a Florida school district’s policy allowing student ...
WASHINGTON — It is just about spring, and high school seniors are beginning to count the days until graduation. For constitutional lawyers, that countdown is moving toward the annual ritual of ...
A federal appeals court judge will hear oral arguments Tuesday in an appeal by the American Humanist Association to a U.S. District Court ruling last year that partially upheld the practice of prayer ...
A federal judge on Friday blocked a southern Kentucky high school from including prayers in its graduation ceremony, prompting students to begin reciting the Lord’s Prayer during the opening remarks.