A wave of new laws and mandates in states, particularly in the South, is stirring debate and testing the bounds of what may be legally permissible. Officials, educators and parents in those states are now being confronted by what, if any, amount of religious-infused lessons they want children to have access to.

More than 200,000 students at one of the largest school districts in the nation have started the school year with a major change: no cellphone use allowed.

A suspect was taken into custody Thursday after Wisconsin police said a teenager attempted to enter an elementary school in Kenosha while potentially armed.

Teachers at the Georgia high school where four people were killed in a mass shooting were able to alert authorities by pressing a button on their badges. The alert system was put in place just a week ago.

The Chino Valley Unified School District, involved in an ongoing legal battle with the state over the district’s gender-identity policy, sued Gov. Gavin Newsom over a new law banning districts from requiring that parents be notified of their child’s gender identification change.

The families, who are Jewish, Christian, Unitarian Universalist and nonreligious, alleged in court papers that the new law “substantially interferes with and burdens” the parents’ First Amendment right to raise their kids in whatever religion they want.

As his daughter was crossing the stage at the Baraboo High School graduation, Matthew Eddy walked onstage and moved Rainey Briggs away, preventing him from shaking hands with the teen.

The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous Shenandoah County board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War.