AUSTIN – The Texas State Board of Education voted this Friday in favor of incorporating Bible teachings in public grade schools ... earlier this year, the curriculum introduces Bible-based ...
Credit: Rachel Zein for The Texas Tribune A new Texas curriculum seeks to captivate first-grade students with a lesson on Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s historic estate long revered for its ...
In a third-grade lesson about the first Thanksgiving ... both Jewish and Christian worship.” With the new curriculum, Texas would be the first state to introduce Bible lessons in schools ...
Public schools in Texas ... of the curriculum argue it heavily favors Christianity over other faiths. Some have suggested the teachings violate the “establishment clause” of the First ...