In addition to President-elect Donald Trump’s promise that he’ll be “closing up the Department of Education,” one of the more troubling planks of his education platform is his pledge to “support ...

When Aretha Franklin crooned the words 'I'll say a little prayer for you' in the hit 1960s song she probably didn't imagine that the soulful pledge would become the stuff of serious science. But ...

Alabama lawmakers debated Wednesday whether to require schools to start their day with the Pledge of Allegiance and a Judeo-Christian prayer. If a school refuses, it could lose a quarter of its ...

HB231, sponsored by Rep. Reed Ingram, R-Pike Road, originally required all K-12 public schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and “a prayer consistent with Judeo-Christian values” at the ...

The Pledge of Allegiance was finally recited in commissioners court Tuesday, but it may be a while before it appears there again. County commissioners to seek policy on prayer, pledge at meetings ...