A Texas bill would allow schools to set aside time for students to pray and study the Bible or other religious texts.

Debates over expanding religion on Texas campuses came the same day the U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlock blocked the creation of ...

A proposal allowing a period for praying and reading religious texts in Texas public schools cleared a key vote Thursday.

Mayes Middleton, allows school districts to adopt a policy to provide students and staff a daily period of prayer or time to read a religious text. The bill requires school districts to take a ...

Bills that would return prayer, the Ten Commandments, and the Bible back into Texas classrooms head to Gov. Greg Abbott's ...

Support for the prayer time in Texas schools didn’t evenly split based on party affiliation. Rep. Richard Peña Raymond, D-Laredo, named several Senate Democrats who backed the proposal as he ad ...

I don’t think there’s anyone here who thinks that the moral, emotional or mental well being of our students is overall better than it was in 1962, when this prayer was removed from our public schools.

The House gave its final approval to Senate Bill 11, written by state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), on Friday morning.