Arlington ISD agrees not to post Ten Commandments amid lawsuit

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…

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