Texas education board OKs curriculum with lessons drawn from Bible

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The Texas Education Agency, which oversees public education in the state, released the new curriculum in the spring, after the state enacted a law directing the agency to develop its own free textbooks.
56% : But they would not be taught that other Christians leaned on the same religion to defend slavery and segregation.
54% : Texas was the first state to allow public schools to hire religious chaplains as school counselors, and the Republican-controlled Legislature is expected to try once again to require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments.
53% : In Oklahoma, the state superintendent has begun buying Bibles for classroom use and sent a video to schools last week inviting students to pray for Trump.
49% : The curriculum, which will be optional, has already drawn protests in Texas, which has emerged as a leader in the ascendant but highly contested push to expand the role of religion in public schools.
43% : "Some critics of the curriculum say that besides a lack of balance, some of its lessons simply are not very good.Amanda Tyler, the executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, said at a news conference Monday that the curriculum was "neither instructionally sound, nor factually accurate," and would teach "misleading" content to children as young as 5.David R. Brockman, a Christian theologian and religious studies scholar who reviewed the curriculum, said he believed deeply in the value of teaching about religion in public schools.
41% : Texas education officials on Tuesday backed a new elementary school curriculum that infuses material drawn from the Bible into reading and language arts lessons, a contentious move that would test the limits of religion's presence in public education.

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