Title: What Does the Law Say About Prayer in School?
Headings: What Does the Law Say About Prayer in School?
What Does the Law Say About Prayer in School?
Relevant Court Cases
Guidelines for Religious Expression in Public Schools

Content: Official neutrality regarding religious activity. School administrators and teachers, when serving those capacities, may not solicit or encourage religious activity. Likewise, they also may not prohibit such activity. Teaching about religion. Public schools may not provide religious instruction, but they may teach about religion. Schools also are not allowed to observe holidays as religious events or promote such observance by students. Student assignments. Students may express their beliefs about religion in homework, art, orally, or in the written form. Religious literature. Students may distribute religious literature to their classmates on the same terms as other groups are allowed to distribute non-school related literature.