A Texas education committee has finalized a policy mandating that students in public schools study biblical narratives. This new curriculum requirement will feature specific accounts, such as the story of Adam and Eve and the depiction of Moses encountering a burning bush. Alongside these religious texts, students will also be assigned classic literature, including Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations.
This initiative, passed by the Republican-led State Board of Education, will apply to more than five million pupils, though the implementation date is set for 2030. The decision has drawn backlash from critics who argue that integrating these texts into the classroom challenges the separation of church and state and compromises religious freedom.
This development follows a previous decision last year in which Texas became the largest state in the nation to mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.
