High school football coach Joe Kennedy has reached a $1.8 million settlement with the Washington school district that placed him on administrative leave in 2015 for praying on the field.
The Bremerton School District Board of Directors voted unanimously on March 16 in favor of the settlement to cover Kennedy’s legal expenses. His attorneys took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in Kennedy’s favor in June 2022.
Kennedy has also been reinstated and will return to the school as an assistant football coach for the 2023 season.
Jeremy Dys is senior counsel at First Liberty Institute, the legal organization that represented Kennedy in his lawsuit….