Public school commencement season this spring could be marked by renewed legal uncertainty because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to review a Florida school district’s policy allowing student ...

The valedictorian of a high school in a San Antonio suburb where a judge has banned formal prayers at graduation ceremonies on Saturday is fighting for an opportunity to lead the crowd in prayer. On ...

University of Maryland President C.D. Mote Jr., in a rare rebuff of the school's senate, announced yesterday that commencement ceremonies would continue to include an invocation. "For many people, a ...

PEORIA, Ill., May 17 -- A federal judge has barred student-led prayer at a suburban high school graduation Sunday, marking the first time in the school's 80-year history that a prayer will not be ...

Graduation season is here, and that means it’s also the time for legal wrangling over prayer at public school commencement ceremonies. Skirmishes have already occurred this spring, for example, over ...

Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court on Friday reversed a ban won by an agnostic family that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The new Southern Illinois University chancellor's decision to add a brief prayer during fall graduation ceremonies prompted about two dozen calls of protest, and he plans to form a ...