News Articles in Education

WACO, Texas (BP) – The U.S. Department of Education confirmed Baylor University’s religious exemption from a narrow range of Title IX provisions, particularly regarding LGBTQ students.

Third season of ‘Vindication’ set to begin streaming Sept. 1; OBU to launch graduate programs in health care.

New podcast featuring Tony Evans to help pastors from ‘Start to Finish’; University of Mobile President Lonnie Burnett announces retirement in May 2024.

Oklahomans challenge first publicly funded religious charter school; Court upholds end of religious exemptions for vaccines in Connecticut.

CHICAGO (BP) -- A former Moody Bible Institute instructor claims under Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act that the school uses a doctrine that only men can be pastors as a pretense to discriminate against women.

Samford's Nursing School received a $2 million grant to help eradicate nursing shortage; Carson-Newman faculty member edits book to help those dealing with infertility

LYNCHBURG, Va. (RNS) — Jerry Falwell Jr., the former president of Liberty University, is suing the school, arguing administrators are committing trademark infringement by using the late Jerry Falwell Sr.’s likeness without consulting with the family.

LOS ANGELES (BP) – Three Orthodox Jewish families and two Jewish schools are suing the California Department of Education for excluding private religious schools from government funding to teach children with disabilities.

OKLAHOMA CITY (BP) – A Catholic diocese has won approval to open a charter school in Oklahoma slated to become the first publicly funded religious school in the nation amid concerns of separation of church and state.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics entity has called for withdrawal of a Biden administration proposal it says would force schools to discriminate against female athletes to continue to receive federal funding.