{"id":351814,"date":"2026-06-26T19:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351814\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:54:10","slug":"texas-board-approves-bible-stories-as-required-reading-in-public-schools-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351814\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/056e7e21-e408-46df-8166-4d7c483923b8_1546533418.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Associated Press\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Texas public schools will require students to read Bible stories under a reading list approved by the state\u2019s education board Friday, widening conservative efforts to bring more Christian teachings into U.S. classrooms.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The push in Texas has been closely followed by education observers, who say the required reading list appears to be the first of its kind in the nation and is departure from letting schools or teachers decide what students read.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The Texas State Board of Education, which is controlled by Republicans, approved the list of over critics who argued the titles lacked diversity and and blurs the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Supporters say Judeo-Christian traditions were fundamental to the nation\u2019s founding and that should be reflected in the public school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Under the mandate, more than 5 million public school students in Texas must read traditional literary works such as E.B. White\u2019s \u201cCharlotte\u2019s Web\u201d and Charles Dickens\u2019 \u201cGreat Expectations.\u201d They\u2019ll also be required to read Bible stories, including passages from the New Testament and excerpts from the Book of Job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Texas public schools will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58654,125317,30065,125318,125319,125325,117054,125320,60349,117055,125321,125322,125326,125323,112331,112326,125327,58653,125328,125329,30312,91272,93222,27,29,28,11362,125324,112329,108295],"class_list":["post-351814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-bible-stories","tag-book-of-job","tag-charles-dickens","tag-charlottes-web","tag-christian-teachings","tag-conservative-efforts","tag-demand-menu-subscribe","tag-e-b-white","tag-education-board","tag-email-weather-search","tag-great-expectations","tag-judeo-christian-traditions","tag-literary-works","tag-new-testament","tag-page","tag-privacy-notice-term","tag-public-school-curriculum","tag-reading-list","tag-required-reading","tag-school-mandate","tag-separation-of-church-and-state","tag-shnd","tag-state-education-board","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-public-schools","tag-u-s-classrooms","tag-use-nextfre","tag-wjcl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}