Across the country there have been conservative pushes to incorporate religion into classrooms, from Florida legislation allowing school districts to have volunteer chaplains to counsel students to Oklahoma's top education official ordering public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons.

Ever-advancing technology, budget constraints and encouraging a love for reading while competing with nonstop digital distractions are just a few of the many challenges school librarians face.

Counties with large areas of public land get federal funding that many rural schools rely on. The most recent round of payments in May will be the last unless Congress votes to extend the program.

The court stopped what would have been the first publicly funded religious charter school in the U.S., turning back conservatives and the state's GOP governor who have welcomed religious groups into public education.