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Oklahoma drops plan to force schools to teach Bible lessons in social studies classes

Last month, the state Supreme Court ruled that Walters couldn’t force schools to accept his requirement. In June 2024, ...
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Pastors express concern as Texas votes to add Bible lessons to public schools

This week, Pastor John Strader of Horizon Baptist Church in Missouri City periodically scanned news updates to check whether the state had approved or denied a new elementary-level curriculum to allow ...
The New York Times

Bible-Based Lessons for Public Schools Get Final Approval in Texas

The state’s board of education narrowly voted to allow schools to start using the reading and language arts curriculum next fall if they choose. By Troy Closson Texas education officials on Friday ...
Los Angeles Times

Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s top education official ordered public schools Thursday to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12, the latest effort by conservatives to incorporate ...

Inside a New Bible-Infused Texas English Curriculum

This school year, many Texas districts are teaching from an elementary curriculum that features extensive content about the ...
wsbt

Local school system will consent to students leaving class for Bible lessons

A local school district says it will now consent to students leaving class for Bible lessons off-site. This is an update to a story WSBT’s Operation Education covered in July. RELATED: Operation ...
Post and Courier

Commentary: How we can teach the Bible in public schools without violating 1st Amendment

Oklahoma’s state school Superintendent Scott Walters has made headlines for his new policy requiring the teaching of the Christian Bible and the Ten Commandments in the public schools. The policy will ...
LGBTQ Nation

School officials all over Oklahoma are defying GOP directive to teach the Bible in class

The superintendents of nearly five dozen Oklahoma school districts say they do not plan to change their districts’ curricula to comply with anti-LGBTQ+ Republican State Superintendent of Public ...
Newsweek

Texas Approves Bible-Based Lessons in Elementary Schools

Texas has approved a controversial new curriculum that allows elementary schools to incorporate Bible teachings into reading and language arts lessons. Schools adopting the optional program will ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Teach the Bible in public schools? Be careful what you wish for

To the editor: As your editorial notes, Oklahoma’s state Supt. of Public Instruction Ryan Walters took great pains to specify that the Christian Bible and Ten Commandments should be highlighted in ...
Fox News

Shannon Bream's 'Women of the Bible Speak': Stories from the past teach lessons for today

"The Women of the Bible Speak," a new book by Fox News anchor Shannon Bream and the second title of the new Fox News Books platform, is slated to hit stores at the end of the month. But for those ...