A new application for a religious charter school is stirring up far-reaching questions about the constitutionality of public aid to faith-based institutions.
- Joseph Panzer Chair in Education and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton
American courts have heard cases over the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether lessons are constitutional depends on their purpose.
Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect those rights.
American courts have legislated the Bible’s role in classrooms for more than a century. Whether it’s constitutional depends on the aims of teachers’ lessons.
New laws mandating the Ten Commandments’ display in schools have faced lawsuits in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
Landor v. Louisiana, one of this year’s highest-profile religious freedom cases, underscores how complex legal protections for free exercise are in the US today.
Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are testing a Supreme Court precedent barring displays of the Ten Commandments’ display in public school classrooms.
School lawyers are petitioning the Supreme Court to hear Cambridge Christian School v. Florida High School Athletic Association.
SCOTUS decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor, one of its blockbuster cases from 2025, largely rested on two parental rights cases from 1925 and 1972.
Mahmoud v. Taylor stems from some families’ efforts to excuse their children from lessons that use storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters.
An education law professor unpacks what the Supreme Court’s 4-4 order does and doesn’t say.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond on April 30, 2025.
Research suggests school choice programs have little effect on student achievement but worsen overall outcomes by draining money from cash-strapped public school systems.
For years, the Supreme Court has been expanding the boundaries of government aid to religious schools. St. Isidore’s case pushes the debate into new territory.
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, adding to uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
Officials have vowed to keep fighting for permission to open the school as a charter – which would be a controversial first for the country.
The Supreme Court has twice weighed in on ‘release time’ policies, and many states allow districts to implement them.
The Supreme Court’s approach toward religion in schools has been shifting, creating uncertainty about legislation such as Louisiana’s.
Legal rulings throw fate of special scholarships for ethnic minorities into doubt.
In 1922, Oregon voters approved an initiative to require public school for most students ages 8-16 − but it didn’t hold up in court.
A law scholar examines a pair of Supreme Court cases that pit the public’s free speech rights against politicians’ rights.
Many countries wrestle with whether to include any kind of education about religion in public school lessons, and each one takes its own approach.
Recent Supreme Court decisions have signaled a shift in how the country’s highest court interprets the limits on religion in schools.
The controversial – and often misunderstood – extracurricular groups tend to raise controversy. But under equal access laws, schools can’t discriminate against a club based on its point of view.
A designer opposed to same-sex marriage argued that a Colorado anti-discrimination law would effectively force her to speak against her beliefs.
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