Wooden signs with "In God We Trust" etched on them will be on display in all Lafayette Parish public schools, beginning in January.

The signs were made by students in Southside High’s woodworking department.

The move is so Lafayette Parish complies with a new state law that requires all public schools in Louisiana to display the motto on campus.

The motto must be displayed by August 2019, but Lafayette Parish is making the move early.

The state legislature approved the measure this past spring. Gov. John Bel Edwards signed it into law in May.

“We’re not pushing God on anybody. We’re incorporating it as part of the history of our nation,” said State Sen. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, in May. Barrow authored the Senate bill that includes the requirement.

“It’s our national motto, for goodness sake,” Barrow continued in a May interview with the USA Today Network. “If it’s good enough to be on our money, it’s good enough to be in our schools.”