{"id":25373,"date":"2024-11-22T20:43:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T04:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25373"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T04:43:20","slug":"texas-board-of-education-narrowly-approves-biblical-material-in-public-school-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-board-of-education-narrowly-approves-biblical-material-in-public-school-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Board Of Education Narrowly Approves Biblical Material In Public School Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All four Democrats on the board voted against approving the curriculum, along with three Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>By a one-vote margin, the Texas State Board of Education approved\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-moves-closer-to-approving-biblical-material-in-public-school-curriculum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">optional biblical teachings<\/a>\u00a0in the state\u2019s elementary public school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum, Bluebonnet Learning, includes Christian teachings and biblical references, such as Jesus\u2019 parable of \u201cThe Good Samaritan\u201d and the \u201cGolden Rule.\u201d The Texas Tribune\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/11\/19\/texas-sboe-bible-christianity-curriculum\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that school districts can choose whether to use the curriculum, but the state will offer districts $60 per student to implement the Christian-based lessons. All four Democrats on the board voted against approving the curriculum, along with three Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/texas-board-of-education-narrowly-approves-biblical-material-in-public-school-curriculum\">dailywire.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All four Democrats on the board voted against approving the curriculum, along with three Republicans. By a one-vote margin, the Texas State Board of Education approved\u00a0optional biblical teachings\u00a0in the state\u2019s elementary public school curriculum. The curriculum, Bluebonnet Learning, includes Christian teachings and biblical references, such as Jesus\u2019 parable of \u201cThe Good Samaritan\u201d and the \u201cGolden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/texas-board-of-education-narrowly-approves-biblical-material-in-public-school-curriculum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas Board Of Education Narrowly Approves Biblical Material In Public School Curriculum<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Bf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25374,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25373\/revisions\/25374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}