The battle continues over Texas' new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms. A new lawsuit has been filed to keep it from happening, and legal experts say the case could end up going to the Supreme Court.

(AP) - Texas cannot require public schools in Houston, Austin and other select districts to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, a judge said Wednesday in a temporary ruling against the state’s new requirement. Texas is the third state where ...

TEXAS, USA — Senate Bill 10 mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in every public-school classroom, but not without a legal fight. Religion has long influenced Texas culture, politics and daily life. Now, with the passage of SB 10, signed by Gov.

As a new Texas law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in schools is set to take effect next week, Attorney General Ken Paxton is ensuring compliance across the state. However, a recent court ruling has exempted 11 school districts, including ...

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FRISCO, Texas — Frisco ISD has more than 4,000 classrooms across 77 campuses. Their first day of school is Wednesday. And a copy of the Ten Commandments will be hanging in every class. The district spent $1,800 on posters that comply with Senate Bill 10 ...

A Ten Commandments poster that hangs in one suburban Dallas teacher’s classroom is surrounded by hot-pink placards featuring tenets from Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam. A substitute teacher north of Houston is sending her twin daughters to school wearing ...

Texas recently became the third state in two years, following Louisiana and Arkansas, to pass a law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms. Soon after — like the other states that had passed such a law — it was sued over this ...

This story was previously published on June 27, 2025, and has been recirculated at the start of the school year. AUSTIN — A new law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in every Texas public school classroom is already facing a legal challenge just ...