Protect our kids. Protect our faith freedom.
Texas is playing fast and loose with its standards for educating children, as the Texas State Board of Education revised its standards for social studies curriculum and passed a required reading list. Both decisions affect what millions of Texas children learn — and both were made by the same small group of political insiders without meaningful input from parents, teachers, or faith communities.
In April, you pushed back against the group of nine political appointees known as “content advisors” who want to force their religious views onto public school students. In June, you showed up to make your voices heard as the SBOE voted to approve the problematic reading list. We’re still moving forward.
The new reading list takes effect in 2030, so there is still time to safeguard religious freedom, including through legislative activity in spring 2027.
Updates on What's Happening in Texas Education Policies
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Whose Bible? Whose Kids?
August 10, 2026
Somewhere, a kindergartner is about to learn the Bible from the state of Texas — whether they’re Christian or not and whether their parents want it or not.
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What Else Is Going Back to School?
September 2, 2026
A new school year means more than new notebooks and pencils. It also means new state and federal policies — Bible readings, Ten Commandments displays, and federal school vouchers — affecting public...
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In The News
Read About Our Shared Efforts
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New York Times
Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
David Segal, a rabbi who works for the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, testified that the list shows a preference for evangelical Christian versions of the Bible, often the King James version, that risks “an unconstitutional endorsement” of religion.
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Austin American-Statesman
Inside the Texas SBOE meeting and protest over proposed social studies standards: See photos
The Rev. Lisa Endean-Jacob and Blake Ziegler, field organizer for the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, display a poster highlighting constitutional and legal protections for religious freedom during an interfaith funeral-themed protest.
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The Texas Tribune
As supporters praise Texas’ proposed “Judeo-Christian” curriculum, rabbis say it dismisses Judaism
But [Rabbi David Segal] said Jewish texts should not be taught “through a Christian lens” or be insensitively paired with Holocaust literature.
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State-organized Prayer
Texas’ state-organized prayer in school law threatens students’ right to belong, their right to learn, and their right to practice their faith freely without government coercion. Find out more about...
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