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TL;DR: The Texas State Board of Education voted 9-5-1 to require Bible passages — including sections of Exodus for fifth graders and the Eight Beatitudes from Matthew for seventh graders — as part of the public school reading curriculum. The board’s defense is that it is teaching scripture as literature. Whether that argument survives a First Amendment challenge is for constitutional