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The Bible has a deep history in American classrooms, but the state’s provocative superintendent wants to broadly expand its influence. By Sarah Mervosh and Ruth Graham Sarah Mervosh reports on ...
In recent weeks, mainstream media outlets have devoted considerable attention to Idaho Family Policy Center’s proposed legislation to bring the Bible back to public schools. For nearly a century ...
Let the best book win! I may be naive, but isn't Bible reading in public schools a violation of our constitution's rule of "separation of church and state"? What about those whose religions and ...
A bill has been introduced to require bible reading in all public schools. The bill sponsored by representative Jordan Redman of Coeur d'Alene would require verses of the King James Bible to be ...
Walters issued a memo Thursday instructing all Oklahoma schools to teach students in grades five through 12 about the Bible’s influence ... “it will help us move the ball forward, even more ...
Officials in red states are increasingly using schools to test the wall between church and state. Oklahoma joined Louisiana last week in insisting that biblical teachings have a place in the ...
Oklahoma public schools will be required to teach students the Bible as a “necessary historical document” — a week after Louisiana directed the Ten Commandments be posted in every classroom.
They’ve spent years trying to erase Bibles from our schools, and they can’t stand seeing parents and educators fighting back." Walters issued a Bible-teaching mandate for Oklahoma schools last ...
Oklahoma Teachers Were Told to Use the Bible. There's Resistance From Schools as Students Return BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's Bixby school district has lots to show off for a fast-growing ...
Austin, Texas — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students from kindergarten through fifth grade under a proposal that drew hours of testimony ...
Officials in Texas have backed a controversial new public school curriculum that would incorporate Christian lessons from the Bible as early as kindergarten. Eight out of 15 state school board ...
Texas Proposal Would Give Schools the Option to Use Bible Teachings in Lessons AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas public schools could use teachings from the Bible in lessons as an option for students ...