Judge blocks four districts from enforcing Arkansas law requiring Ten Commandments in classroom
A new Arkansas law requiring public classrooms to display the Ten Commandments cannot be enforced in a handful of the state’s largest school districts where parents brought challenges on the grounds that it violates the separation of church and state, a federal judge ruled Monday.

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