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Sun Jun 30, 2024, 07:01 AM Jun 2024

How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced? [View all]

https://www.npr.org/2024/06/30/nx-s1-5024117/louisiana-ten-commandments-classroom-requirement-how-funded-and-enforced
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How will Louisiana's Ten Commandments classroom requirement be funded and enforced?

JUNE 30, 2024 6:31 AM ET
By The Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be implemented and enforced remain murky.

Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate religion into classrooms, from Florida legislation allowing school districts to have volunteer chaplains to counsel students to Oklahoma's top education official ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons.

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Unless a court halts the legislation, schools have just over five months until they will be required to have a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in all public school K-12 and state-funded university classrooms. But it's unclear whether the new law has any teeth to enforce the requirement and penalize those who refuse to comply.

Supporters of the law say donations will pay for the thousands of posters needed, while critics argue the law is an unfunded mandate that could burden schools. And teachers in some schools have said they likely won't hang the posters, including in the blue city of New Orleans, where residents and officials have a history of resisting conservative policies.

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