The Establishment Clause creates a wall that separates church and state. Nowhere is that more important than in public schools.

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Controversy over the commandments is not new. In more than a dozen early cases, courts generally upheld laws and policies mandating their recitation in schools. These enactments survived because the ...

Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have passed laws requiring the posters in public schools. Several other states are considering similar measures. By Pooja Salhotra A growing number of Republican ...

Readers discuss a Texas law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Also: A job seeker’s tale; long ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An Arkansas law requiring that the Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in public school classrooms was struck down by a federal judge Monday. Republican senators say they ...

A sculpture with the Ten Commandments is pictured on the Texas Capitol grounds on Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Austin. Texas can enforce a state law requiring public schools to display posters of the ...

The Tennessee House soon will have to make a choice. Do members want to make it mandatory that public school districts allow individual schools to display the Ten Commandments or leave it to the ...