Standards for Bible Literacy Courses
National
Academic study of the Bible in public
schools is legal in all 50 states of the union. In 1963, the Supreme
Court ruled in Abington v Schempp that public schools may not require devotional use of the
Bible. In that same decision, however, the Supreme Court explicitly
acknowledged that academic study of the Bible in public schools is
constitutional, as part of a good education.
 The Bible & Public Schools: A
First Amendment Guide, co-published by the Bible Literacy
Project and the First Amendment Center, provides consensus legal
guidelines for teaching the Bible in public schools, and was
endorsed by 21 national educational, religious, and civil
liberties groups, including the National School Boards
Association, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the
American Jewish Congress.
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State Laws, Standards and Correlations
Our textbook, The Bible and Its
Influence, fulfills all of the following state standards.
Alabama
Certification of State Adoption
Status: Our textbook was approved in October 2007 for the 2008
adoption year on the State-Adopted Textbook List for Literature,
grades 6-12, in the Comprehensive category. The direct link to the
list in which our textbook can be found is
Textbooks Adopted by the Alabama State Board of Education (from
6/1/08 to 5/31/14): Literature, Comprehensive (Excel Spreadsheet)
Within the spreadsheet provided
there, our textbook is on the second tab at line 54.
Ours is the only student textbook on
the Bible that is approved by the Alabama State Board of Education.
Florida
Florida State Standards for Bible Courses
Georgia
SB 79,
effective July 1, 2006
Georgia Performance Standards for
Literature and History of the Old Testament Era
Georgia Performance Standards for
Literature and History of the New Testament Era
Oklahoma
HB 2321
effective November 1, 2010.
South Carolina
S
726, signed June 18, 2007
South Carolina Department of Education:
Old Testament and New Testament Standards
Tennessee
SB 4104, effective July 1, 2008
Tennessee State Board of Education:
Direct Link to TNSBE:
Curriculum for a Secondary Level Course on the Bible
Alternate Link:
IVBCurriculumforaSecondaryLevelCourseontheBible.pdf
Texas
HB 1287, effective fall 2009
Texas State Standards for Bible Courses
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