In Texas, a majority of the state Board of Education has voiced support for a new Bible-based curriculum for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. If approved, Texas public schools would be given financial incentives to use the optional curriculum. The president of the Texas American Federation of Teachers, Zeph Capo, criticized the new curriculum.

Zeph Capo: “We’ve had the same government, many of the same players behind it in the state of Texas, actually making accusations against our educators that we’re indoctrinating students, when, in fact, as this curriculum comes to development and is implemented in school districts, particularly because they are focusing on kids so young and so impressionable, that we will in fact have a state government that’s indoctrinating students.”