Why is religion flooding into public schools? It has nowhere else to go

Published July 9, 2024 11:54am ET



Religion seems to be flooding into public schools. This is perhaps most striking with Louisiana’s new law requiring schools to post the Ten Commandments in every classroom, but the Pelican State is not alone.

Is this Christian Nationalism at work? Maybe. But there is a more obvious possibility: The share of people who are religious is much higher than the share of religious schools. That gives people who want explicitly religious education nowhere else to go than public schools.

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