The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of parents seeking to opt their children out of public school instruction that conflicts with sincerely held religious beliefs.

The case focuses on Muslim parents who asked to opt their son out of reading a book with two gay characters. The ruling could affect parental rights and control over curriculum.

In Cedar Grove, New Jersey, the local school district distributed surveys on sensitive topics like religion, family income, and gender identity without giving parents a chance to opt out.

Similar administrative inconvenience results from notice and opt out rights already provided by the District to parents for other reasons, as set forth in ¶ 3 of the complaint.

The high court’s decision purports to protect religious diversity, which was never truly threatened. Instead, this decision could easily become a slippery slope, resulting in parents removing their ...

A growing number of parents – in nearly every state in the country – are refusing to let their children take public school standardized tests.

ALBANY — Nearly 10 years after the massive protest that led to hundreds of thousands of New York children not taking yearly state tests, the opt-out movement is still going strong in some parts ...