— The Jewish school board president in a Pennsylvania town that has canceled the invocation at its high school commencement following controversial remarks by a student at last year’s ceremony said he ...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The new Southern Illinois University chancellor's decision to add a brief prayer during fall graduation ceremonies prompted about two dozen calls of protest, and he plans to form a ...

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - A speaker at Millikin University's winter graduation has many students, faculty and alumni outraged after making transphobic comments during the ceremony. Reverend Wally Carlson ...

University of Maryland President C.D. Mote Jr., in a rare rebuff of the school's senate, announced yesterday that commencement ceremonies would continue to include an invocation. "For many people, a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- An Irmo High School graduate has sued to stop prayers at future graduation ceremonies. Eighteen-year-old Matthew Nielson sued to block prayer, saying the invocation offered at ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Approximately 170 graduate and 640 undergraduate students will attend the commencement ceremony at the Whitworth Pine Bowl in May. Whitworth University will host two commencement ...

Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court on Friday reversed a ban won by an agnostic family that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations ...

PEORIA, Ill., May 17 -- A federal judge has barred student-led prayer at a suburban high school graduation Sunday, marking the first time in the school's 80-year history that a prayer will not be ...

Caddo Parish Superintendent Dr. T. Lamar Goree has served Caddo Parish Schools for 10 years, but handing his daughter Madison her diploma may be his greatest accomplishment yet. While Goree had the ...

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - 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 ...