Summit Leadership Academy-High Desert’s graduation ceremony will not include prayer or other religious sentiments in the future. The Hesperia, Calif., school’s 2015 graduation had included both a prayer and religious remarks from the commencement speaker.

After Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel wrote to the district, the school’s attorney replied July 9 that the invocation and remarks by the graduation speaker both “contained sectarian language,” and said the school would ensure that this would not be the case going forward.