Texas Education Board Backs Bible Infused Lessons in Public Schools

Texas Education Board Backs Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools

School districts serving more than two million elementary-school children would be able to adopt a curriculum that draws on the Bible.

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Texas Education Board to Vote on Bible-Infused Lessons in Public Schools

A new curriculum would focus on Christianity more than other religions. A kindergarten lesson on the Golden Rule, for example, would teach about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount.

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Biden to formally apologize for Indian boarding school system

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Biden formally apologizes for Indian boarding school system

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Florida education officials report hundreds of books removed from schools

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President Biden’s trip to the battleground state of Arizona will be the first time an American president has apologized for the abuses that happened at the schools over a period of 150 years.

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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland applauds President Joe Biden for leading federal apology for Indigenous boarding schools.

Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy

President Joe Biden delivered an apology for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally ...

Biden becomes first president to apologize for Native American boarding school policy

President Biden apologized Friday for Native American boarding schools that were part of U.S. policy for 150 years and stripped children away from their tribes and culture. “The federal ...

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President Biden addressed Native Americans at the Gila River Indian Community and formally apologized for the atrocities committed against tens of thousands of Indigenous children at forced federal ...

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President Biden apologized on Friday for the abuses children experienced at the government-run schools, which were designed to erase tribal ties and cultural practices.

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Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy

President Biden issued a formal apology for a government-run boarding school system that forcibly separated families and their children for 150 years before it ended in 1969.

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Federal judge blocks Louisiana's Ten Commandments law in public schools

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