Texas State Board of Education OKs hotly debated state-created lessons with Bible stories

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The Texas Education Board's decision to approve materials that incorporates Biblical passages comes after Oklahoma's top education official ordered public schools over the summer to teach the Bible and Louisiana state lawmakers directed schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms.
55% : GOP leaders in these states have confidently taken on constitutional protections that bar religious instruction from public education.
54% : " Texas lawmakers have already began filing bills for the upcoming state legislative session to address furthering the integration of religion in public schools, such as a proposal that would require the posting of the Ten Commandments in each classroom or another that would provide students with periods of prayer.
52% : Nationwide conversation The approval of the Texas Education Agency-created materials adds to a highly politicized national conversation about the role of religion in public schools.
44% : This debate about whether and how religion should play a role in public schools is cropping up in states across the nation though it's not new for classrooms, said Joshua Cowen, a professor of education policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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