public schools
Fasting at school? More Muslim students in the US are getting support during Ramadan
By Darren Sands, Corey Williams, Giovanna Dell'orto, and Mariam Fam — March 18, 2024
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Fasting is not required of young children, but many Muslim children like to fast to share in the month's rituals and emulate parents and older siblings, according to the Islamic Networks Group.
Public schools and faith-based chaplains: Texas’ new combination is testing the First Amendment
By Charles J. Russo — October 26, 2023
(The Conversation) — Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
Catholic educators need to take a lesson from public school battles
By Charles C. Camosy — August 31, 2023
(RNS) — The ‘wokeism’ crisis in public education is a historic opportunity for Catholic schools.
Fewer evangelicals support public school childhood vaccine requirements, survey shows
By Adelle M. Banks — May 16, 2023
(RNS) — Significant majorities across religious groups say the benefits of childhood vaccines outweigh the risks from getting them.
How school choice drives America’s people of faith apart
By Amy Laura Hall — April 19, 2023
(RNS) — Religious freedom arguments are a strategy for undermining public education.
Plans for religious charter school, though rejected for now, are already pushing church-state debates into new territory
By Charles J. Russo — April 18, 2023
(The Conversation) — Using public funds to support students at private religious schools is one thing, but establishing faith-based institutions within public districts is another.
Ramadan finds greater recognition in America’s public schools
By Amaarah DeCuir — March 22, 2023
(The Conversation) — Federal law protects students’ rights to request some religious accommodations, including during the month of Ramadan.
Some Muslims, Jews welcome court ruling allowing football coach to pray
By Yonat Shimron — July 8, 2022
(RNS) — Some minority faith leaders are wondering if government neutrality on religion is such a good thing.
Why the Supreme Court’s football decision is a game-changer on school prayer
By Charles J. Russo — June 28, 2022
(The Conversation) — Kennedy v. Bremerton, a case about a public school teacher’s prayer, helps close out a Supreme Court term in which religion was often in the spotlight.
Will yoga classes in public school lead kids to convert?
By Yonat Shimron — June 11, 2021
(RNS) — Indiana University Professor of Religious Studies Candy Gunther Brown says parents should worry less about where yoga comes from and more about how it's being taught.
Alabama lifts ban on yoga in schools. Sort of.
By Mat McDermott — March 18, 2021
(RNS) — Alabama avoids constitutional entanglements but falls squarely into the mouth of cultural appropriation.
Alabama House votes to end yoga ban, but don’t say ‘namaste’
By Kim Chandler — March 13, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Board of Education voted in 1993 to prohibit yoga, hypnosis and meditation in public school classrooms.
Virus prompts churches meeting in schools to find new ways to preach, pray
By Adelle M. Banks — March 20, 2020
(RNS) — Pastors of newer churches are faced with the dilemma of figuring out how to reach and keep new members without ‘pressing the flesh,’ one expert said.
Bible reading in public schools has been a divisive issue – and could be again
By The Conversation — February 4, 2019
(The Conversation) — A spate of new bills permitting the study of the Bible in classrooms threatens to reignite one of the oldest church-state controversies in U.S. politics.
Religious freedom advocate Charles Haynes: ‘It’s not a choice’
By Adelle M. Banks — October 19, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) — First Amendment scholar, to be honored after retiring from the Freedom Forum Institute’s Religious Freedom Center, talks about the state of religious freedom and his private faith.
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