Trump vows to protect prayer in public schools with new Department of Education guidance [View all]
Source: USA Today
Updated Sept. 8, 2025, 12:33 p.m. ET
President Donald Trump announced upcoming guidance from the Department of Education protecting prayer in public schools during a speech at his Religious Liberty Commission’s Sept. 8 hearing. The hearing, held at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, marked the commission’s second public meeting and had a theme of “Religious Liberty in Public Education.”
Trump has long vowed to bring religion back to the nation, both on the campaign trail and so far during his second term. He walked out to the crowd at the Museum of the Bible shortly after 10:30 a.m., thanking the commission for doing an “amazing job.” He said his administration would “protect the Judeo-Christian values of our founding.” “To have a great nation, you have to have religion – I believe that so strongly,” Trump said. “There has to be something after we go through all of this, and that something is God.”
He went on to allege that students are “indoctrinated with antireligious propaganda” in public schools before announcing the new Department of Education guidance. It was not immediately clear what the guidance would entail.
Students have long had the right to pray in public schools as individuals.
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