Texas: School district to modify Bible class
Jerry Pierce reports on the Baptist Press:
. . . The Ector County Independent School District in Odessa has agreed to modify the curriculum in settling an ACLU lawsuit . . .
. . . Part of the settlement reached between eight parents represented by attorneys for the ACLU and People for the American Way, and the school district, represented by Liberty Legal Institute in Plano, Texas, requires that a school board-appointed committee develop a new curriculum by June 1 for review by the school board, the Midland (Texas) Reporter-Telegram reported the day after the March 5 settlement.
"This is a great victory for ECISD and the community," Hiram Sasser, Liberty Legal’s director of litigation, said in a statement. "ECISD will continue to offer a Bible course, it will be a curriculum of its own choosing, it may use portions of any existing curriculum as a resource, and the Bible will be the main textbook for the course." . . .
Liberty Legal Institute press release: ECISD Will Continue Bible Courses: Courses Utilize Bible as Main Textbook
ACLU press release: Texas School Board Agrees To Stop Teaching Unconstitutional Bible Class In Public Schools
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Since when did politics have anything to do with schooling? If anything religion has more to do with schools. Politicians stay out of it.
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