The Texas SBOE Is About To Rewrite Your Child’s Education—With The Bible

A crucial vote tomorrow could change public education forever.

Tomorrow, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) is meeting at 1:00 pm to vote on putting bible verses in your child’s textbooks. If approved, this curriculum could be implemented as early as August 2025. The Republicans on the SBOE have signaled that they are ready to cross the line from public education to religious indoctrination.

Tomorrow is the final vote on the Language Arts/Reading curriculum, which they held hearings for in September.

Read the full report on this new curriculum from the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), “Turning Texas Public Schools into Sunday Schools?” The report cites the Bluebonnet Learning Curriculum as:

• “Bible-infused,” emphasizing Christianity disproportionately while giving minimal attention to other major religions.

• Historical narratives still gloss over Christianity’s involvement in colonialism, slavery, and oppression.

• Excessive focus on biblical stories and Christian themes in ways more suitable for Sunday School.

• The curriculum overstates the importance of religious freedom in American history, minimizing other key liberties.

• It still inaccurately links religious liberty as a primary motive for colonization and a central grievance of the American Revolution.

This “Bluebonnet Learning Curriculum” is full of systemic religious imbalance, historical inaccuracies, and a tendency to present Christianity in a manner more appropriate for sectarian education than public schools.

Call to action.

Unfortunately, you would have had to sign up by Friday to testify at this meeting. (Sorry for the last-minute notice; I only learned about the meeting today.)

Fortunately, the Texas Freedom Network has made emailing your SBOE member easy and set up a handy form where they will email your member using their template.

Email your SBOE member using TFN’s form.

You can also email written testimony directly to testimony@sboe.texas.gov.

This push for the Bluebonnet Learning Curriculum isn’t happening in isolation.

It’s part of a larger strategy to reshape public education into a vehicle for Christian Nationalism. Republicans in Texas and across the country are already laying the groundwork to implement Project 2025, including public education, to align with their ideological agenda.

Project 2025 envisions a future where public schools no longer teach students to think critically but instead prioritize a narrow, sectarian worldview. The Texas SBOE’s move to inject “Bible-infused” materials into your child’s textbooks is a clear signal that they believe the return of Trump will give them the green light to escalate this agenda.

Republicans aren’t waiting for a second Trump administration to act; they’re testing the waters now, using Texas as a proving ground for their vision of Christian Nationalism. They see this state as a stronghold for their agenda and believe no one will stop them.

But they’re wrong.

It’s up to us—the parents, educators, and citizens of Texas—to oppose these efforts. Public education should empower students with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive, not force them into a narrow ideological framework. We must demand that public schools respect the religious diversity of our communities and provide an education that serves all students, not just those who adhere to a single faith tradition.

The SBOE vote tomorrow is just one battle in a much larger war for Texas’s future of public education. We can’t afford to sit this one out. This fight isn’t just about textbooks—about what kind of Texas we want to leave for the next generation.

This meeting will be livestreamed tomorrow, if you want to watch. I’ll update you after the vote. Stay tuned.

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