Americans United recognized Kaylee Cole of Louisiana with AU’s annual David Norr Youth Activist Award “for steadfast commitment to religious freedom and the rights of conscience in public education.” Kaylee successfully challenged her public school district's practice of violating students’ religious freedom through the widespread promotion of Christianity.

Americans United’s efforts to settle a lawsuit challenging a variety of school-sponsored religious practices in a Louisiana public school district collapsed in September after officials with the district abruptly pulled out of the process and canceled settlement talks. The case will go to trial next year.

Project Blitz hopes to use bills like 'In God We Trust' as a stepping stone to even more damaging bills that allow public schools to promote prayer, teach creationism, and eventually allow the government to use religion to discriminate against LGBTQ people, women, and religious minorities.