Tarrant County schools sued over Texas Ten Commandments law

More than a dozen multi-faith families, including one from Fort Worth, filed a lawsuit against five Tarrant County-area school districts and others across Texas to stop them from displaying the Ten Commandments in classrooms as required under a state law.

The group of 15 families filed the suit Monday in a San Antonio court against 14 districts, including Fort Worth, Arlington, Northwest, Mansfield and Azle saying the law is a violation of religious freedom and the separation of church and state.

This is the latest legal challenge to the new state law that went into effect Sept. 1…

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