{"id":83967,"date":"2026-06-27T08:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83967"},"modified":"2026-06-27T08:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:05:01","slug":"texas-education-board-votes-to-make-bible-passages-required-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/texas-education-board-votes-to-make-bible-passages-required-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Education Board Votes To Make Bible Passages Required Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>ABC News<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">The Texas State Board of Education has voted to make Bible passages required reading in\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/news\/story\/la-school-district-approves-new-screen-time-limits-134161969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">public schools<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The education board, which is controlled by Republicans, voted to pass a new required reading list on Friday by a vote of 9-5-1. The list for required literature includes sections of the Book of Exodus for fifth graders, The Shepherd&#8217;s Psalm for seventh graders and more.\u00a0Board discussions about the required reading list\u00a0took place Friday morning and touched on issues related to\u00a0the implementation timeline and the question of teacher autonomy in deciding which works should be required reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News: The Texas State Board of Education has voted to make Bible passages required reading in\u00a0public schools. The.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83968,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83967\/revisions\/83968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}