Betsy DeVos: Religious liberty in our schools must be protected

There’s a reason why the First Amendment comes first. Our country was founded upon the “first freedoms” it protects. The freedom to express ourselves — through speech, through the press, through assembly, through petition and through faith — defines what it means to be American.

And no American forfeits these freedoms — including the right to pray — to anyone or in any place, especially in public schools. The notion of “separation of church and state” is not an invitation for government to separate people from their faith.

Yet, too...