Public Education

“The new survey shows that 58 percent of white evangelicals say there should be a requirement for children attending public schools to be vaccinated, while 40 percent say parents should be able to choose” - CToday

“Conservative groups such as Texas Values Action have voiced support for the bill, and the National School Chaplain Association, an arm of the Christian group Mission Generation, testified in support during committee meetings last month.” - RNS

ERLC and Minnesota-Wisconsin Baptist Convention are backing parents seeking legal standing to contest the Eau Claire (WI) Area School District policy that “permits staff to conceal from parents their child is identifying at school as a gender different than his or her biological sex.” - BPNews

“The fight over ‘book banning’ and who has the final word in a child’s education has taken some nasty turns of late. Everyone needs to take a step back and put the debate into some commonsense context.” - Acton

“People were saying our schools were Marxist, socialist, atheist—and that just wasn’t our experience as local church pastors.” - C.Today

“as often happens with any culture war skirmish, judgment gets clouded and common sense gets abdicated. But in this case, there is really no excuse for believing this very bizarre rumor.” - Relevant

“In a 6-3 opinion, the justices decided the Bremerton (Wash.) School District actually violated the First Amendment rights of Joseph Kennedy by removing him as a coach because of its concerns his practice infringed on the Establishment Clause.” - BPNews

“The new grading practices are designed to help students struggling with difficult home situations but, according to an official statement, ‘OPRFHS does not, nor has it ever had a plan to, grade any students differently based on race.’” - Relevant

“Many of the headlines said the majority-conservative court ‘appeared sympathetic’ to the coach, which I disagree with. The justices appeared more confused by the conflicting narratives…. Breyer plaintively noted at one point: ‘One of my problems in this case, is that the parties seem to have different views of the facts.’” - Get Religion

“The U.S. Supreme Court weighed lengthy arguments April 25 regarding whether a high school football coach’s post-game prayer at midfield violates the First Amendment’s ban on government establishment of religion.” - BPNews