The role of the school board in public education in the United States is wide-ranging. While routine duties include setting policies, adopting budgets and hiring staff, the most critical role of the ...

On April 14, the school board in Mustang, Okla., voted to institute an elective Bible course. This is not news. More than a thousand U.S. public schools offer Bible as literature courses. But the ...

The ACLU of Virginia has asked the Textbook Review Committee of Chesterfield County Public Schools to drop from consideration a controversial Bible study course that may unconstitutionally promote ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Legislation that would require all Florida public high schools to offer elective courses on the study of the Bible won approval Thursday in a House committee but still faces ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- For the third time in a year, The Church That Never Closes in Prince’s Bay will hold a 15-week Bible study, “The Greatest Story,” beginning Sept. 7. Several people already have ...

Juniors and seniors in one north Alabama school district could soon be studying the Bible and getting high school and college credit for the course. Morgan County Schools on Tuesday held an ...

CHINO – An elective course on the Bible as history and literature will be offered at two Chino Valley high schools starting later this month. The Board of Education on Thursday approved the textbook ...

Cantrell said Rev. Thich Hang Dat of Louisville’s Buddha Bless Temple reached out to her with his concerns about the legislation that was approved in 2017. “I am, of course, happy to listen and serve ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Legislation that would require all Florida public high schools to offer elective courses on the study of the Bible won approval Thursday in a House committee but still faces ...

HOUSTON, July 31 - When the school board in Odessa, the West Texas oil town, voted unanimously in April to add an elective Bible study course to the 2006 high school curriculum, some parents dropped ...