The long-dormant idea of teaching public school students about the literary and historic importance of the Bible is getting a fresh look this year from state legislatures and local school boards - ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) | The Texas State Board of Education has given final approval to establishing Bible classes in public high schools, rejecting calls to draw specific teaching guidelines and warnings ...

Corrections & clarifications: This column has been updated to correct the sponsor of the 2013 Texas study and the journalist who wrote about Bible instruction in Ohio. The Supreme Court barred ...

AUSTIN (AP) - Some 60 public school districts across Texas offer courses on the Bible, but at least a third aren't meeting state requirements to be unbiased and academically and legally sound, a study ...

ATLANTA – In 2006, Georgia became the first state to allow Bible education classes in public schools, after much debate over the sticky issue of separation of church and state. Now the classes are ...

ATLANTA – Georgia is poised to introduce two literature classes on the Bible in public schools next year, a move some critics say would make the state the first to take an explicit stance endorsing — ...