COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – LifeWise Academy’s attorneys are challenging religious release time policy recommendations, warning they could lead to lawsuits for school districts like Columbus City Schools.

A controversial, Bible-based educational group called LifeWise has been rapidly expanding its footprint across southwest Ohio in recent years.

An attorney representing LifeWise is warning Ohio school districts they could be sued if they use a model policy preventing religious release groups from providing materials, candy or trinkets to ...

The Ohio Senate wants to amend the state's religious release bill to prevent public school districts from prohibiting religious groups like LifeWise from providing students with candy, trinkets, or ...

Washington school district faces federal lawsuit accusing it of violating First Amendment rights of Christian program ...

Students disembark from a LifeWise Academy bus. LifeWise Academy, which holds off-site school day Bible study for public school students, released a report last month saying they are now in more than ...

EVERETT — Community members gathered at a school board meeting in Everett on Tuesday to voice their concerns over a controversial midday Bible education program after legal teams representing the ...

LifeWise Academy is a Hilliard-based religious instruction program that started in 2019 and now enrolls 50,000 students across 29 states. (Photo by Megan Henry, Ohio Capital Journal.) Ohio school ...

Public school districts throughout Ohio have put in place policies to comply with a law to allow religious groups to take kids off campus during the school day with their parents' permission. But one ...

The Satanic Temple is offering a religious learning program to students at an elementary school in Ohio as part of the state's religious release program. Students at Edgewood Elementary School in ...

NEW CARLISLE, Ind. (WNDU) - The New Prairie United School Corporation says it will allow Olive Elementary School students to voluntarily leave campus during school hours for weekly Bible classes.

An attorney representing LifeWise is warning Ohio school districts they could be sued if they use a model policy preventing religious release groups from providing materials, candy or trinkets to ...