{"id":479936,"date":"2026-02-20T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:17:08","slug":"can-you-pray-at-school-breaking-down-new-education-rules-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/479936\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Pray At School? Breaking Down New Education Rules = &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Jayla Ward \u2022 1 minute<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aUMq85_xrbM\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">THIS WEEK ON FIRST LIBERTY LIVE!:<\/a> Senior Counsel Jeremy Dys shares his insights on the Department of Education\u2019s updated guidance on religious expression in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>He answers common questions, such as: Can a teacher quietly prayer over her lunch in front of students? Can students start a religious club on campus? When is it appropriate for students to pray for their classmates?<\/p>\n<p>Watch below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District set a precedent protecting the rights of students, teachers, coaches and employees to freely exercise their faith in public school. With this recent change, federal policy is now in line that landmark ruling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Constitution safeguards the free exercise of religion as one of the guiding principles of our republic,\u201d Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/news\/press-release\/us-department-of-education-issues-guidance-prayer-and-religious-expression-public-schools\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\">press release<\/a>. \u201cThe Trump Administration is proud to stand with students, parents, and faculty who wish to exercise their First Amendment rights in schools across our great nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Jayla Ward \u2022 1 minute THIS WEEK ON FIRST LIBERTY LIVE!: Senior Counsel Jeremy Dys shares his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-479936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}