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.

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 ...

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; ...

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 ...

School officials in Lake City, Ark., have come up with a novel solution to the fight over prayer at graduation: No prayer, no graduation. On May 6, the school board voted to cancel sixth-grade ...

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 ...