public schools and religion

This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a…

On Tuesday, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) unveiled what he modestly calls “An 11 Point Plan To Rescue America ,” his policy platform proposal should the GOP retake the Senate in the November midterms. “I…

This year’s streamlining process managed to nudge the standards in the direction of less biased coverage of the world’s religions, but much work remains if Texas students are to receive balanced instruction.

Perhaps Betsy DeVos can be forgiven for imagining that America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were “real pioneers when it comes to school choice.” I mean, she wasn’t there in…

I like to give my friends a pop quiz: what is the only public high school district in the country with a mandatory course in world religions? First they wonder aloud whether or not it is even legal to…

Could a course prevent public schools from becoming battlefields?

Last week a story broke about a middle-school teacher in Dublin, Georgia, sharing an “inappropriate opinion” in the classroom. Nancy Perry allegedly told her students that President Obama is not a…

Because why would anyone want to be an ordinary student when they could be a hero of Biblical proportions?

Is rewriting the rules on religious freedom in the works?

How about theaters, bars, coffee shops…