The Texas State Board of Education voted to approve new required reading for students in its public school system Friday. Critics have denounced the curriculum change, which includes Bible passages, as a violation of the First Amendment, but state law and legal precedent allow Texas to go through with it.

In recent years, the Texas government has already been altering how its public school curriculum looks. In 2025, it notably passed a bill that required public schools to publicly display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. This move led to legal pushback and was eventually upheld by a divided Fifth Circuit panel/en banc court.