In the process, they are dismantling core protections for the religious freedom of our nation's students. The U.S. Department of Education headquarters is seen on March 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Rights and Responsibilities is a recurring series by Richard Garnett on legal education, the role of the courts in our constitutional structure, and the law of religious freedom and free expression.

A choir teacher in Goddard was called out by the Freedom From Religion Foundation after leading her students in a song often interpreted as a plea for release from slavery.