OCEAN CITY — Parents and community members called on the Board of Education to reject a proposal to offer Bible study during school ... opposed the idea said the lessons appear aimed at ...
Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early ... a professor of religious studies at Southern ...
The analysis argued the curriculum overemphasizes Christianity over other religions, provides a one-sided portrayal of Christianity, and uses detailed Bible lessons that are “unnecessary and ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The State Board of Education is set to make its final vote later this week on whether the English and Language Arts textbooks provided by Texas will feature stories from the Bible.
Here's my study Bible. These lessons would be totally appropriate ... the civil rights organization's engagement coordinator for free speech, told CNN after the vote. "The same politicians ...
which would allow Bible teachings—such as the Golden Rule and lessons from books like Genesis—to be included in classrooms. While the curriculum would remain optional for individual schools ...
Texas education officials on Tuesday voted to support an optional elementary school curriculum that would include lessons based on the Bible ... populations in social studies or the minimalization ...
A Texas Education Agency study of ... analyzed the lessons and found they lacked religious balance, were at times inaccurate and appeared to go out of the way to bring the Bible into classrooms.
In Oklahoma, state officials have been trying to include the Bible in public school lesson plans, per the Associated Press. In Louisiana, a federal judge recently ordered state education ...
In a preliminary vote on Tuesday, Texas education officials approved a proposal to allow lessons about the Bible into public school classrooms, according to multiple news reports. The state Board ...