Texas education board approves optional Bible-infused curriculum for elementary schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : If adopted, the new Texas curriculum would follow Republican-led efforts in neighboring states to give religion more of a presence in public schools.
57% : Creating Bible-infused lessonsThe Texas Education Agency, which oversees public education for more than 5 million students statewide, created its own instruction materials after a law passed in 2023 by the GOP-controlled Legislature required the agency to do so.
52% : AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas would allow Bible-infused lessons in elementary schools under changes that were set for a final vote Friday and could test boundaries between religion and public education in the U.S.The proposed curriculum narrowly cleared a preliminary vote this week at the Texas State Board of Education, whose elected members heard hours of sometimes impassioned pleas from both supporters and critics over the material that schools could begin using next year.
45% : A group of teachers and parents recently filed a lawsuit to stop the Republican state superintendent's plan and his efforts to spend $3 million to purchase Bibles for public schools.

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