Conservative legal groups have expressed concern over the Biden administration’s recently announced guidance on religious expression in public schools, believing that it might lead to an increase in violations of First Amendment rights for teachers and students. On Monday, the United States Department of Education released the details of a new guidance, titled “ Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools .” “The purpose of this updated guidance is to provide information on the current state of the law concerning constitutionally protected prayer and religious expression in public schools,” stated the Education Department. “The principles outlined in this updated guidance are similar to the U.S. Department of Education’s … 2003 and 2020 guidance on constitutionally protected prayer in public schools and with guidance that President Clinton issued in 1995.” Keisha Russell, counsel at the First Liberty Institute, said in a statement emailed to The Christian Post on Tuesday that there are concerns with the newly released guidance. “We respect that the Biden administration acknowledges the important religious liberty rights of public school employees as the Supreme Court declared in its Kennedy decision last year,” stated Russell. Nevertheless, Russell warned that “the administration’s […]
