After several days of hearings and votes, the Texas State Board of Education voted late Friday to require a reading list for every grade level in public schools, including at ...

Texas is on the verge of requiring its more than 5 million public school students to study Bible stories, as the state emerges as a leader in a national conservative effort to infuse Christian ...

Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state ...

Texas will become the first state in the nation to require public school students to read selections from the Bible after the Republican-controlled State Board of Education signed off Friday on a ...

On June 26, 2026, the Texas State Board of Education approved a required reading list for public schools, including selections from the Bible.

The State Board of Education approved a measure that requires Bible stories be read by public school students.

Will Florida create a similar mandate?

Texas is moving toward a statewide reading list for public schools that includes biblical passages—prompting a fresh debate over where the line falls between teaching religion and promoting it.