Faith and Religion

South Dakota House lawmakers are rejecting a proposal to require schools display the Ten Commandments in schools. It was the last step before the Senate bill would reach the governor’s desk.

A bill mandating the Ten Commandments in state classrooms again narrowly moves forward despite contention – this time in the House Education Committee.

A House committee is advancing a bill requiring schools to implement chaplain or volunteer policies.

A bill seeking to force school districts display the Ten Commandments in every South Dakota classroom has advanced from the Senate.

A bill which seeks to mandate the Ten Commandments be displayed in every South Dakota classroom advances from the Senate Education committee.

After a summer without incident, the banner has been vandalized multiple times in the last few weeks.

In this Dakota Life story from 2015, come with SDPB to the Brown Earth Church in rural Grant County, South Dakota.

With an out-of-state petitioner angling to mandate prayer in South Dakota schools, some consider it a misuse of the state ballot measure system. That includes the state ACLU chapter.

A Florida Man wants to mandate prayer in South Dakota public schools. The Attorney General’s office is releasing an initiated measure explanation for the proposal, which could appear in the 2026 election.

The measure defines antisemitism and creates legal pathways to prove antisemitic discrimination.