The Louisville Courier-Journal reports on an item in the budget that passed the Kentucky House last week. Representatives from Breathitt County secured $100,000 for equipment and educational materials for Riverside Christian School. This appropriation – which...
A divided panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Pledge of Allegiance's use of the phrase "under God" to be constitutional. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The daily schoolroom ritual is not a prayer, but instead "a recognition of...
The Texas Board of Education voted 10-5 yesterday against a proposal to teach high school students about the constitutional separation of church and state. Apparently some are hoping if we don't teach about it, it will just go away. Board members defeated an...
Two somewhat opposing views on that question. First up, AU's Barry Lynn, argues that nothing has changed: During his presidential campaign, Obama specifically promised that "if you get a federal grant, you can't use that grant money to proselytize to the...
Thomas Farr, former head of the State Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, writes in today's Washington Post to protest the Obama Administration's failure to – as he sees it – live up to the promise of the Cairo speech with a...
The Texas Board of Education has begun meeting yet again to debate Social Studies curriculum standards, picking up where they left off: with high school courses. As always, the Texas Freedom Network blog is the place to go for live-blogging the event. Meanwhile, the...
