Education
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August 12th, 2022
Cambridge Christian School
First Liberty represents Cambridge Christian School, who was told by the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) that it could not pray over the loudspeaker before kickoff of its state championship football game. Officials outrageously argued that prayer was an “endorsement” of religion since it would be taking place on government property. Their actions are illegal and unconstitutional—which is why...
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July 27th, 2022
Teaching Wisdom
The average 12-year-old student at a yeshiva has more wisdom than almost any student at Harvard or most other universities. (A yeshiva is an Orthodox Jewish school with an emphasis on religious studies.
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July 26th, 2022
Sexual Liberation in Public Schools
Los Angeles Unified School District has adopted a radical gender-theory curriculum encouraging teachers to work toward the “breakdown of the gender binary,” to experiment with gender pronouns such as…
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July 19th, 2022
Public Schools: So Hostile To Christians, They’re Unconstitutional
Religious devotion, the keystone of ordered liberty in the West, has been under systematic assault by anti-religious forces Barr called an ‘atheocracy.’
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July 14th, 2022
WI Court Allows Schools’ “Don’t Tell Parents” Policy
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday turned back a court challenge by parents who wish to be informed when their child wants to identify as the opposite sex.
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June 28th, 2022
Justices Give Education a Prayer
In a pair of decisions in the past week, the Supreme Court took a major step forward in both education and religious liberty by ruling that states can’t discriminate against religion in education in the name of erecting a wall of separation between church and state.
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June 24th, 2022
Maine School Choice – Cases – First Liberty
Three Maine families, the Institute for Justice (IJ) and the First Liberty Institute (FLI) have filed a legal challenge to Maine’s exclusion of religious options from the state’s school choice program.
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June 22nd, 2022
Victory for Religious Schools
By: Carrie Campbell Severino – nationalreview.com – June 21, 2022 The First Amendment never uses the term “separation of church and state.” It instead contains two religion clauses: one that prevents Congress (or, since the 14th Amendment, the states) from passing any law establishing a state church or “respecting” such an establishment; and the other protecting the free exercise of...
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June 8th, 2022
Senator Ben Sasse on How to Fix Higher Education
A 1,000-person YouGov survey last August found that just 19% of the American public thinks higher education is going in the right direction. About half (49%) say it’s going in the wrong direction. The rest weren’t sure.
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June 3rd, 2022
College Student Evicted
A Michigan university accused one of its students of breaching the school’s code of conduct because she talked about receiving a religious exemption for the COVID-19 vaccine requirement on Facebook.
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