MUSKEGON, MI - Muskegon Community College will continue to include an invocation in its commencement ceremony, but with some changes. In response to a complaint, the MCC Board of Trustees voted ...

The Lewisville school district has always allowed students to say prayers at high school graduations. That tradition will continue this year, except these prayers will not be called invocations or ...

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 ...

LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Continuing to program for an invocation and/or benediction at graduation ceremonies would put Pottsgrove schools in direct violation of the “establishment clause” of the U.S.

It happens every year around this time: a public high school in a small town schedules a graduation prayer in plain violation of the 1992 Supreme Court case prohibiting such prayers, Lee v. Weisman; ...

The lawsuit alleged that the graduation prayers violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment — "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" — and included a request ...

LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Ending years of tradition, there will be no invocation or benediction at this year’s Pottsgrove High School graduation – a decision that was made last year, but only became more ...

U.S. District Judge Fred Biery recently ruled in favor of Christa and Danny Schultz who objected to prayer being offered at their son's Texas school graduation. Judge Biery ruled that Christa, Danny ...

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 ...

LOWER POTTSGROVE >> Internal emails provided to The Mercury reveal that the person who complained about prayer in the invocation and benediction at last year’s Pottsgrove High School graduation was ...

— The Jewish school board president in a Pennsylvania town that has canceled the invocation at its high school commencement following controversial remarks by a student at last year’s ceremony said he ...