Committee to vote on Bible class content

Board of Education will decide whether to accept proposed controversial curriculum Cynthia Noland Dunbar explains her stance about a Bible course in public schools Thursday. Dunbar and other members of the Committee on Instruction of the State Board of Education, acted on the motion to include a literature elective about the Bible that the full board will approve or disapprove Friday. The Texas State Board of Education will vote today on the final adoption of curriculum requirements for high school elective courses that teach Bible scriptures' impact on the history and literature of Western civilization. The board's Committee on Instruction passed the curriculum to the full board in a 3-to-1 vote Thursday. Today's vote will fuel controversy that started between religious-freedom advocacy groups in June 2007 when the Texas... [read full story]