Ten Commandment posters will not appear in Arlington ISD classrooms after the district agreed to not display the biblical text in order to be dismissed from a lawsuit debating the constitutionality of a new Texas law.
Arlington was sued in September alongside 13 other districts, four of which are in Tarrant County, as parents requested that the courts strike down a law requiring schools to hang Ten Commandments posters in classrooms if they are donated.
Chief Communications Officer Taina Northington told the Arlington Report that the district agreed to follow a previous U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting the display of the Ten Commandments, but would display the posters if ordered to by federal courts…