A federal appeals court will hear arguments in January about state laws in Texas and Louisiana requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms.

In a memo sent to district staff on Sunday, McAllen Independent School District Superintendent Rene Gutierrez instructed teachers to remove postings of the Ten Commandments from all classrooms as the district awaits a ruling from a federal court in an ongoing legal dispute.

On this day in 1980, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Stone v. Graham, which said that a Kentucky statute requiring a copy of the Ten Commandments to be […]

Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement. Texas is the third state where courts ...

The Texas attorney general insists no school district ‘may ignore Texas law without consequence’ as a federal judge says districts have to take down

Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public-school classroom under a bill ...