LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Rick Snyder has signed laws that give kids the opportunity to say the Pledge of Allegiance each day in Michigan public schools. The laws kick in during the next school year.

A federal appeals court has ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional because it includes the words "under God," violating the separation of church and state.

The Canton Repository asked schools in Stark County how often students recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The majority of elementary students recite the pledge daily, but fewer middle and high ...

In public schools across the country, students are not required to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. (Private schools are different.) Courts have ruled that students in public schools may ...

Marissa said that on the morning of Nov. 29 — her birthday — she was walking to class at River Bluff High School in Lexington, S.C., as the Pledge of Allegiance was being broadcast over an ...